Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** - Softcover

Vasily Grossman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099506165 ISBN 13: 9780099506164

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2006

Synopsis

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 Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

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Review:

"One of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century" (Times Literary Supplement)

"It is only a matter of time before Grossman is acknowledged as one of the great writers of the 20th century... Life and Fate is a book that demands to be talked about" (Guardian)

"One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century" (Daily Telegraph)

"Vasily Grossman's novel is burnt in my memory, not only by its huge canvas, its meditation on tyranny, and its dazzling description of war, but also because this is the novel that made me cry - not just a few leaked tears, but a full-scale sobbing episode - in Montpellier airport... Grossman lost his mother in a concentration camp. In Life and Fate, he writes with tenderness, and pain, not only of that experience but of what it is like to survive tyranny. A classic indeed" (Gillian Slovo Independent)

"One of the great writers of the last century" (Observer)

Book Description:

The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099506165
• ISBN 13: 9780099506164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 912