Человек не отсюда

by Daniil Granin, Даниил Гранин

В новой книге Даниила Гранина тесно переплелось художественное с документальным. История в этих текстах становится фактом частной жизни, а частная жизнь - фактом истории. И это дает возможность каждому читателю почувствовать себя включенным в большое время. Если в своих первых, ставших культовыми для нескольких поколений, книгах Гранин учит, как менять судьбу, то теперь он показывает, как следовать ей.

317 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Also: Даниил Гранин

Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (born Daniil Alexandrovich German) was an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. After completing his graduation Granin began working as a senior engineer at an energy laboratory and soon after the war broke out, he volunteered as a soldier.

One of the first widely praised works of Granin was a short story about graduate students, titled Second Varient. It was published in the journal Zvezda in 1949. Granin continued to study engineering and working as a technical writer until success knocked on the door in the form of Those Who Seek; a novel inspired from his life as an engineer. The book talked about the overly bureaucratic Soviet system which tended to stifle new ideas.

Granin has worked as a board member in the Leningrad Union of Writers and is a winner of many medals and honors including the State Prize for Literature in 1978.