An epic novel in which war and love intertwine.
“Quiet Don” is an epic novel that Sholokhov worked on for 15 years—from 1925 to 1940. The book earned the author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. One of the most significant, talented, and mysterious works of Russian prose, steeped in countless myths and legends. Years and decades pass, and yet “Quiet Don” is still read, admired, and filmed again and again—sometimes as closely as possible to the text of the novel, sometimes in a freer adaptation… Because in literature there are two truly eternal themes—love and war. Love that struck down the dashing Cossack Grigory Melekhov and a stranger’s wife—the beautiful Aksinya. And the war—the terrible, tragic Civil War that maimed people’s bodies and souls.