Life and Fate

Author(s): Vasily Grossman

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Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destiniesin a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.


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The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century

Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964.

General Fields

  • : 9780099506164
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.585
  • : September 2006
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : very good
  • : 891.7344
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Vasily Grossman