Babi Yar

The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust

A Anatoli author David Floyd translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:8th Feb '24

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This is the gripping story of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.

'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail

Anatoli Kuznetsov is twelve years old in September 1941 when the German army enters Kyiv, Ukraine and the killings begin 'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...'

Babi Yar recounts the massacre of Jews and others at the ravine known as Babi Yar. Within days of the invasion, thousands are executed. Anatoli hears the gunfire from his home and begins recording what he sees in his journals.

As starvation and fear spread through the city, neighbours collaborate, families disappear, and entire communities are erased.

As Holocaust literature based on first-hand testimony, Babi Yar preserves eyewitness accounts of one of the largest massacres in the history of the Holocaust and confronts the attempt to silence it.

'Extraordinary' Orlando Figes, Guardian
'A vivid first-hand account of life under one of the most savage of occupation regimes... A book which must be read and never forgotten' The Times

Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing book - rightly hailed a masterpiece -- Tony Rennell * Daily Mail *
Babi Yar is one of the classic accounts of life under Nazi rule in occupied Europe and a depiction of man's inhumanity to man... [a] masterpiece -- Henry Marsh * New Statesman *
A masterpiece . . . Every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Night . . . Solzhenityn's Gulag Archipelago -- George Packer * The Atlantic *
Absolutely stunning. A raw, devastating account of one of the greatest tragedies of WW2. Babi Yar provides a painfully intimate look at life during the Nazi occupation in Ukraine through the eyes of one resilient young boy. Told in poetic yet unflinching prose, this compelling book should be necessary reading for anyone looking to not only understand Ukrainian history, but humanity -- Erin Litteken
Moving and shaking in a way that links it with the works of Solzhenitsyn * Times Literary Supplement *
Superb... One of the most frightful exposures yet of human iniquity -- Anthony Burgess
Not just a great book, but a valuable document * New Yorker *
By the end of this raw, direct, meticulously assembled collection of testimony, there is no choice but to recognize, and to bow before, the assertion of its opening sentence: "This book contains nothing but the truth" * Wall Street Journal *
A rediscovered masterpiece that must be read and never forgotten * Arts Desk *
Rightly hailed as a masterpiece. In its intimacy, imagery and immediacy, it leaves you despairing that such terrible atrocities were actually committed… Read it and weep * Daily Mail, *Books of the Year* *

ISBN: 9781784878405

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 31mm

Weight: 362g

528 pages