Life and Fate Paperback - 2006
by Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Robert Chandler
Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny.
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Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.
On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family - Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and Fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.
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- Title Life and Fate
- Author Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Robert Chandler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 896
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York Review of Books, New York
- Date 2006-05-16
- ISBN 9781590172018 / 1590172019
- Weight 2.04 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.36 x 1.87 in (20.37 x 13.61 x 4.75 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005022739
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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