This book is the complete author's version of the famous documentary novel "Babi Yar" about the extermination of the Jewish population of Kyiv in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, a teenager at the time, was himself a witness to the shootings of Kyiv's Jews; he spoke extensively with survivors of the catastrophe and collected the recollections of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first published in the magazine "Yunost" in 1966, and even then, despite numerous and crude cuts by censors, it had the effect of a bombshell—no one before Kuznetsov had dared to write about the Holocaust in such a way. However, the path of the true story of Babi Yar to the reader turned out to be long and difficult. In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly smuggled the full version of the novel to England, where he requested political asylum. A year later, "Babi Yar" was published in the West in its authorial edition, but the Russian reader was only able to encounter the unabridged text after Perestroika.
Author: Anatoly Kuznetsov
Pages: 704 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 138x208x59 mm
