"And Quiet Flows The Don" is Mikhail Sholokhov's famous novel that received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. The book consists of four volumes. The first volume was translated into Tamil by A.L. Nadarajan and published by New Century Book House (Chennai, India). The novel describes how the Cossacks' lives were affected during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russia's social revolution. Literary critics consider this novel one of the best twentieth-century novels and compare it with Tolstoy's famous "War and Peace."
A Russian movie in two parts was made based on this novel. The first part was released in 1957, and the second one in 1958, respectively. The movie includes all four volumes of the novel and was directed by Sergei Gerasimov. The movie with English subtitles is available on YouTube. I would say it's a movie worth watching and a book worth reading. Link to YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZVYaKkAAqQ
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