{"product_id":"life-and-fate-paperback","title":"Life and Fate - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVasily Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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, \u003cb\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/b\u003e is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. \u003cbr\u003eOn its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family - Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and Fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVasily Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e (1905--1964) was born in Berdichev in present-day Ukraine, the home of one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. After studying chemistry and working as a mining engineer, he was discovered by Maxim Gorky, whose support enabled him to begin publishing his writing. Grossman was a combat correspondent during World War II, covering the defense of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin, and writing the first account in any language of a German death camp. Although the manuscript for \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e was initially seized and suppressed by the KGB in 1960, and Grossman did not live to see it published, it was smuggled out of the USSR a decade later with the help of Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich. The novel was eventually published throughout Europe and North America in the early 1980s; it appeared in Russia in 1988. \u003ci\u003eA Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941--1945, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of Grossman's journalistic writings and notebook entries, was published in 2006. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of selections of Sappho and Apollinaire, as well as of Pushkin's \u003ci\u003eDubrovsky\u003c\/i\u003e and Leskov's \u003ci\u003eLady Macbeth of Mtsensk\u003c\/i\u003e. His co-translations of Andrey Platonov have won several prizes in both the UK and the US. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRussian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida\u003c\/i\u003e; his most recent translation is of Hamid Ismailov's \u003ci\u003eThe Railway\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 896\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.87 x 8.02 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52073330868525,"sku":"9781590172018","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/life-and-fate-paperback-6063500.webp?v=1780164546","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/life-and-fate-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}