Life and Fate

£11.99

The 20th 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 and published in 1980.

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The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.

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Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

‘A literary genius. His Life and Fate is rated by many as the finest Russian novel of the 20th Century’ Mail on Sunday

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Additional information

Weight 0.801 kg
Dimensions 21.6 × 15.3 × 3.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

xxx, 864
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

891.7344 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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