num_pages: 384
description: The German occupation breaks up a harmonious community of Russian Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians and turns it into a ghetto that almost none survive
language: English
title: Heavy Sand
titlecomplete: Heavy Sand
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, Holocaust, Classics, Historical, War, Russia, Historical Fiction, Jewish, Novels
ratings_count: 549
publisher: Penguin Books