Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) - Vasily Grossman

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) - Vasily GrossmanThe 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 Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it

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