A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the
manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were
confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World
War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated
the twentieth century.
Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with
the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs,
scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman
fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time
of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.
Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific
laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and
minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas
chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.
This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is
one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.
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