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Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
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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tyranny and war.Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.’One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century’ Daily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
Additional information
| Weight | 0.627 kg |
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| Dimensions | 5.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 912 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2006-10-5 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099506165 |
| About The Author | 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. |
The War and Peace of the 20th century |
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| Other text | One of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century |
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