Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

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Product ID:	9780099506164
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Life and Fate
Subtitle:	AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4
Authors:	Author: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler
Page Count:	912
Subjects:	Second World War fiction, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
Description:	Select Guide Rating A novel that focuses on overshadowing the lives of a huge cast of Russian and German characters which looms the battle of Stalingrad. *Life and Fate* *is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times* bestselling author of Stalingrad.** 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 Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. ''One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century'' Daily Telegraph ''Compelling... Grossman''s portrait is timelessly relevant... Life and Fate is worth all the audience it can find'' The Times
Imprint Name:	Vintage Classics
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2006-10-05

Weight	630 g
Dimensions	196 × 132 × 48 mm