Novel
Снега метельные
Not translated into English
Ivan Shchegolikhin · 1958
Synopsis
Around Kostanay, on the newly cleared lands, a harvest of unprecedented abundance overflows the threshing floors, and the grain is not carried away in time. State farms, district officials and doctors strive to cope with it. The novel follows men and women of various trades, such as Zhenya Izmailova, a nineteen-year-old nurse who has come to the virgin lands, or Yuri Nikolaev, the young secretary of the district committee, and blends their daily worries with questions of trust, responsibility and humanity.
Context
Its author, a doctor by training, had given his first short story to Prostor in 1954. Around the Izobilny state farm, the village of Kamyshny and the Tobol, one meets doctors, mechanics, managers and young settlers clearing the land. LiveLib places it among the novels devoted to the heroic past of the virgin lands and to the difficult destinies of those who came to plough them; it is the time of the great harvests that it dwells on, rather than that of the first furrows.
Who it is for
A Soviet novel of the virgin lands, to be read for its picture of everyday life on the sovkhozes of the steppe.
Prizes and reception
Cited by LiveLib among the forty books of its selection devoted to the virgin lands.
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