The work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace
Maxim Gorky
One of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century... a deeply humane, epic, utterly compelling portrait of Russia's cataclysmic entrance into the modern age
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
The finest realist novel about the Revolution
New York Times
The work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace
Maxim Gorky
One of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century... a deeply humane, epic, utterly compelling portrait of Russia's cataclysmic entrance into the modern age
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
The finest realist novel about the Revolution
New York Times
The work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace
Maxim Gorky
One of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century... a deeply humane, epic, utterly compelling portrait of Russia's cataclysmic entrance into the modern age