Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Polly Jones, Robert Chandler Written in the 1950s, and suppressed in the USSR until 1988 - with the KGB destroying all Russian manuscripts, and even the typewriter ribbon on which it was written - Vasily Grossmans epic saga, the War and Peace of the Soviet twentieth century, is an astounding work of literature and a devastating historical and political documentary on both Soviet Communism and German NazismBased around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies. Nazism and Communism are appallingly similar, two poles of one magnet, as a German camp commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. At the height of the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able to speak out as they choose, and without reprisal - an unexpected and short-lived moment of freedom. Grossman himself was on the front line as a war correspondent at Stalingrad - hence his gripping battle scenes, though these are more than matched by the drama of the individual conscience struggling against massive pressure to submit to the State. He knew all about this from experience too. His central character, Viktor Shtrum, eventually succumbs, but each delay and act of resistance is a moral victory. Though he writes unsparingly of war, terror and totalitarianism, Grossman also tells of the acts of senseless kindness that redeem humanity, and his message remains one of hope. He dedicates his book, the labour of ten years, and which he did not live to see published, to his mother, who, like Viktor Shtrums, was killed in the holocaust at Berdichev in Ukraine in September 1941. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Details ISBN1841594032 Author Robert Chandler Pages 936 Publisher Everyman Language English Year 2022 Translator Robert Chandler ISBN-10 1841594032 ISBN-13 9781841594033 Format Hardcover Imprint Everymans Library Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Russian AU Release Date 2022-03-24 NZ Release Date 2022-03-24 Publication Date 2022-03-24 UK Release Date 2022-03-24 Series Everymans Library CLASSICS DEWEY 891.7344 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158760843;

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