Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman

Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman

On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate (rather than its author) was arrested by the KGB. More than twenty years after its arrest, Life and Fate was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman s characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her husband, a scientist who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and Fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781860460197
ISBN 10	1860460194
Titel	Life And Fate
Autor	Vasily Grossman
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-07-20
Seitenanzahl	880
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