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Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (trans.)

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history

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Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Country

United Kingdom

Date

27 February 2017

Pages

912

ISBN

9781784871963

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history

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

Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Country

United Kingdom

Date

27 February 2017

Pages

912

ISBN

9781784871963

Vintage Classics Russian series

Published to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, these are the must-have Russian titles that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.

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