Life and Fate

THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISEDThe twentieth 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.The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.

Product details

• Authors: Vasily Grossman, Wassili Grossman, Grossman Vasily
• Assisted by: Robert Chandler (Translation), Chandler Robert (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2017
• EAN: 9781784871963
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-196-3
• No. of pages: 912
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classic Russians Series; Vintage Classic Russians Series; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Russia, FICTION / Political, Fiction in translation, c 1940 to c 1949, War, combat and military adventure fiction, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 20th Century