num_pages: 904
description: 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.
language: English
title: Life and Fate
titlecomplete: Life and Fate (Stalingrad, #2)
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Classics, World War II, War, Russia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 12375
places: Soviet Union, Stalingrad, USSR, Kazan
series: Stalingrad
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio literatura rusa en España, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Κρατικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης
category: Μετάφραση Έργου Ξένης Λογοτεχνίας στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα
publisher: NYRB Classics