Life and Fate

摘要: A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only manuscript but ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II a profound reckoning with dark forces dominated twentieth century. Interweaving transfixing account battle Stalingrad story single middle-class family, Shaposhnikovs, scattered fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting time almost unimaginable horror even stranger hope. juxtaposes bedrooms snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories Gulag, taking us deep into hearts minds characters ranging boy his way gas chambers Hitler Stalin themselves. This novel unsparing realism visionary moral intensity one supreme achievements modern Russian literature.