The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history
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.
One of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century * Times
Literary Supplement *
It is only a matter of time before Grossman is acknowledged as one
of the great writers of the 20th century... Life and Fate is
a book that demands to be talked about * Guardian *
One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century * Daily
Telegraph *
Vasily Grossman's novel is burnt in my memory, not only by its huge
canvas, its meditation on tyranny, and its dazzling description of
war, but also because this is the novel that made me cry - not just
a few leaked tears, but a full-scale sobbing episode - in
Montpellier airport... Grossman lost his mother in a concentration
camp. In Life and Fate, he writes with tenderness, and pain,
not only of that experience but of what it is like to survive
tyranny. A classic indeed -- Gillian Slovo * Independent *
One of the great writers of the last century * Observer *
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