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Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Vasily Grossman
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Description for Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Paperback. Offering a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, this book is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and a concentration camp are stunningly evoked, from their darkest to their most poetic moments. Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 281 x 2. Weight in Grams: 812.
THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISED The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and a concentration camp are stunningly evoked, from their darkest to their most poetic moments. Judged so dangerous by the Soviet authorities that the manuscript was immediately confiscated when completed in 1960, Grossman's masterpiece was finally smuggled into the West ... Read more
THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISED The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and a concentration camp are stunningly evoked, from their darkest to their most poetic moments. Judged so dangerous by the Soviet authorities that the manuscript was immediately confiscated when completed in 1960, Grossman's masterpiece was finally smuggled into the West ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Vintage Classic Russians Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
912
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784871963
SKU
V9781784871963
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About Vasily Grossman
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more