Twenty Days Without War

6 hrs. 27 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Konstantin Simonov

Narrator Andrey Finagin

Description

Simonen’s hero, a frontline journalist, arrives in Tashkent and finds himself in an unfamiliar, nearly lost reality: there are no battles around, love appears, and he tries to understand again what it means to live an ordinary human life.

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915–1979) was a Soviet writer, war correspondent, and public figure. During the Great Patriotic War he worked on all fronts, traveling the roads of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Germany.

“Twenty Days Without War” (1973) is an honest account of what happens inside a person in wartime. The correspondent of Krasnaya Zvezda, Vasily Lopat in, is sent to Tashkent, where a film is being made based on his frontline essays. Away from the front line, he once again experiences a powerful, long-forgotten feeling—and for twenty days, amid war, finds himself in a world without war.

K. Simonov’s works about the war are included in the required reading list for literature in Grade 11.

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