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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler

From Shelf: Simon Sebag Montefiore's favourite historical novels.

A novel that focuses on overshadowing the lives of a huge cast of Russian and German characters which looms the battle of Stalingrad.

Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.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tyranny and war.Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.'One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century' Daily Telegraph'Compelling... Grossman's portrait is timelessly relevant... Life and Fate is worth all the audience it can find' The Times

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
912
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099506164
Published Date:
5/10/2006
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 54mm
Weight:
618g
Category:
Second World War fiction

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099506164


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