Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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Random House Uk
| Author:
Grossman, Vasily
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback

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The great Russian 2th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. 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 destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 196 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 198, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. ‘A literary genius. His Life and Fate is rated by many as the finest Russian novel of the 2th Century’ Mail on Sunday VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES – sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

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The great Russian 2th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. 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 destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 196 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 198, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. ‘A literary genius. His Life and Fate is rated by many as the finest Russian novel of the 2th Century’ Mail on Sunday VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES – sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

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Vasily Grossman was born in 195. 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 2 years. Grossman died in 1964.
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