At His Side The Last Years of Isaac Babel

"Ms. Pirozhkova's account of Babel's arrest and her own dealings with the security police, who practiced their own Kafkaesque version of the genre of silence, are heart-rending and terrifying. Ms. Pirozhkova is stoical and understated in these passages of her book, and yet it is not difficult to understand how intensely she suffered, not knowing if her husband was alive or dead, not knowing what he could possibly have done to deserve his fate."Pirozhkova, A. N. is the author of 'At His Side The Last Years of Isaac Babel', published 1998 under ISBN 9781883642983 and ISBN 1883642981.