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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Grossman, Vasily. Life and Fate. New York : Random House Publisher Services, ©2012 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler |
ISBN: | 9781590172018 1590172019 |
OCLC Number: | 1031965094 |
Description: | 1 online resource (766 pages) |
Abstract:
A 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, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving 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. Life an.
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