Virgin Soil Upturned – Mikhail Sholokhov (1941)

S$54.00

Virgin Soil Upturned – Mikhail Sholokhov (1941)

S$54.00

Book 1, or Seeds of Tomorrow, of Sholokhov’s two-part novel. Published here 20 years or so before the first publication of Book 2.

Title: Virgin Soil Upturned

Author: Mikhail Sholokhov

Publisher: Putnam, London, 1941.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Very slight wear to cover and top edge of spine, very slight foxing. 488pp., app 8″ by 5.5″.

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About Sholokhov (from Wikipedia):

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (24 May 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.

Sholohov’s first book Tales from the Don, a volume of stories largely based on his personal experiences in his native region during World War I and the Russian Civil War, was published in 1926. The story “Nakhalyonok”, partly based on his own childhood, was later made into a popular film.

In the same year, Sholokhov began writing And Quiet Flows the Don, which took him fourteen years to complete (1926–1940). It became the most-read work of Soviet fiction and was heralded as a powerful example of socialist realism, and it earned him both a Stalin Prize and the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. It deals with the experiences of the Cossacks before and during World War I and the Russian Civil War.

Another novel, Virgin Soil Upturned, which earned a Lenin Prize, took 28 years to complete. It is composed of two parts, Seeds of Tomorrow (1932) and Harvest on the Don (1960), and reflects life during collectivization in the Don area.