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Crossroads. Darkness at Noon

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Yuri Grigorievich Slepukhin (1926–1998) was a writer with a complex and unusual life story. Born in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, he spent his childhood in the North Caucasus, in Pyatigorsk and Voroshilovsk (now Stavropol). During the war, Voroshilovsk was occupied, and in 1943, at the age of 17, Slepukhin and his family were deported to Germany for forced labor. Liberated by Allied forces, the Slepukhins were taken to Belgium, where they lived in forced exile for two years before moving to Argentina. In 1957, Yuri Slepukhin returned to the Soviet Union. These life's ups and downs, along with his experience observing events on both sides of the globe, formed the basis for most of his works.

Slepukhin began writing his first novel, "Crossroads," driven by nostalgia for his distant homeland and his childhood in a southern town in the last years before the war, back in Argentina in 1949. He had no idea it would become the beginning of a gripping tetralogy about World War II, which would later be called the "War and Peace" of the 20th century. The novel was published in 1962, and its sequel, "Darkness at Noon," was published in 1968. The narrative centers on life in an occupied city, a new theme for Russian literature, and the rise and fall of a youth underground.
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