Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov was a Soviet Russian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. And Quiet Flows the Don, available as an audiobook and book, is his epic masterpiece — a sweeping saga of Cossack life on the Don River during World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. The novel's vivid characters, historical scope and emotional depth have earned it a place among the greatest works of twentieth-century literature for readers and listeners.