The Sun of the Dead

"The Sun of the Dead" by Ivan Shmelov is one of the most amazing, tragic and powerful books of the 20th century. This is an epopeya-plak, a documentary and artistic testimony of the hunger, red terror and the crime catastrophe in the 1920-1921s, written by a witness of events with unhuman pain and pronouncing truth. The action takes place in the devastated Crimea, where under the burning, indifferent sun the tragedy of the slow extinction of mankind develops. The author describes the tragic awakenings of the inhabitants of the Crimean ball: intellectuals, peasants, tatar, officers, children and even animals. In a world where the usual laws and morality collapsed, the main engine of life becomes the painful search for a piece of bread. However, on the background of the ruling madness, betrayal and physical death, the author sets out the rare, precious manifestations of humanity, compassion and spiritual resilience. Schmelev created not just a historical document, but a great tragic example of how easy to destroy the world and how terribly a society that lost God and mercy. "The Sun of the Dead" is a hard but necessary book warning, full of deep love for man and pain for broken fate. About what the book in three words: Hunger, Tragedy, Survival. Who to read: to the valuers of a powerful proza about the human fate in the broken moments of history, to the lovers of strong psychological dramas and to everyone who is ready for an honest, deep and emotionally strong immersion in historical memory.