Heavy Sand Author:A. Rybakov "Heavy Sand" is an epic story of four generations of a Jewish family living in Communist Russia and life in a ghetto during the Nazi occupation, culminating in their participation in a ghetto uprising. Though the story of the ghetto uprising is fictional, some details of it seem to be based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. It is believed th... more »at the novel is based on numerous stories collected by Rybakov from people who survived Nazi occupation of Ukraine. This story was dubbed the "first Russian Holocaust novel" by one of the Western newspapers of the time. IN RUSSIAN.« less