ISBN10: 1784871966, ISBN13: 9781784871963, [publisher: Random House UK Ltd Jan 2017] Softcover Neuware - 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tyranny and war.Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.'One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century' Daily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 TimesVINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
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ISBN10: 0099506165, ISBN13: 9780099506164, [publisher: Vintage Publishing Okt 2006] Softcover Neuware - The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. 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tyranny and war.Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2006]
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ISBN10: 1841594032, ISBN13: 9781841594033, [publisher: Everyman Mär 2022] Hardcover Neuware - Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies. Nazism and Communism are appallingly similar, 'two poles of one magnet', as a German camp commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. At the height of the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able to speak out as they choose, and without reprisal - an unexpected and short-lived moment of freedom. Grossman himself was on the front line as a war correspondent at Stalingrad - hence his gripping battle scenes, though these are more than matched by the drama of the individual conscience struggling against massive pressure to submit to the State. He knew all about this from experience too. His central character, Viktor Shtrum, eventually succumbs, but each delay and act of resistance is a moral victory. Though he writes unsparingly of war, terror and totalitarianism, Grossman also tells of the acts of 'senseless kindness' that redeem humanity, and his message remains one of hope. He dedicates his book, the labour of ten years, and which he did not live to see published, to his mother, ...

Everyman's Library 2022 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 952 p. Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics.

Collectibles - isbn: 1860460194 - isbn13: 9781860460197 Harvill Press

[publisher: Collins Harvill London 1985] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 880pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in sl. chipped dust jacket
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1985]

London: Vintage Books, Date: 2006. reprint. Very Good. octavo. stiff wrappers xxxi + 864pp., map, list of chief characters, Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler 2006. Vintage Books [AU]

Hardcover First Edition 880pp Collins Harvill, London 1985. First English edition. Not published in Russia until 1989. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.
[Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1985]

ISBN10: 059332126X, ISBN13: 9780593321263, [publisher: Penguin Young Readers] Hardcover Hardcover. This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as the Tolstoy of the USSR.Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published, Vasily Grossmans novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caught between the fascism of the invading Nazis and the oppression of their own Soviet government. The sprawling plot follows the travails of the extended family of Viktor Shtrum along the vast eastern front of the war. Shtrum is a brilliant nuclear physicist who faces rising anti-Semitism in Moscow while his relatives navigate the threat of camps and prisons on both the Soviet and the Nazi sides. Grossmans extensive wartime reporting, combined with his Tolstoyan narrative skills, allow him to portray with unprecedented detail and authenticity the human cost of the struggle between two freedom-denying powers. In vividly rendered scenes that range from the dramatic battle of Stalingrad to the remote Siberian gulag, and encompassing characters ranging from a grieving mother to a woman in love and from a six-year-old boy on the way to a gas chamber to Stalin and Hitler, Grossmans masterpiece is a profound and moving reckoning with the darkness of the twentieth century and a testament to the stubborn ...
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ISBN10: 1590172019, ISBN13: 9781590172018, [publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 and Fate 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. This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature. Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: ...
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Everyman's Library 5/24/2022 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket Life and Fate: Introduction by Polly Jones (Hardback or Cased Book)

London: Harvill, Date: 1995. Softcover. Good Condition. 21.6 x 13.6 x 4.4 cm. Corners a little bumped. Pages are free from notes or highlighting. Bindings firm, spine intact. Otherwise, a good used copy. Publisher's note: "A novel centred around the Battle of Stalingrad." Size: 21.6 x 13.6 x 4.4 cm. 880 pp.. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Russia (Federation)--Volgograd; Soviet Union; Social conditions; Russia (Federation); Families; Military campaigns; Jews; Russian fiction; ISBN: 1860460194. ISBN/EAN: 9781860460197. Add. Inventory No: 230202ABJ012053. . 9781860460197 1995. Harvill ISBN 1860460194 9781860460197 [GB]

New York: New York Review of Books, Date: 1987. First PB Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Fine/Wraps. First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine. 880pp inc. Introduction by Robert Chandler, List of Chief Characters. 1987. New York Review of Books ISBN 0060913843 9780060913847 [US]

New York Review of Books 2006 Paperback New

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Penguin Random House ISBN 1784871966 9781784871963 [GB]

ISBN10: 1860460194, ISBN13: 9781860460197, [publisher: Harvill Press, London] Softcover pp. 880. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to rfep; very good+.
[Winnipeg, MB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1985]

ISBN10: 1841594032, ISBN13: 9781841594033, [publisher: Everyman 2022-03-24, London] Hardcover Language: ENG
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]

ISBN10: 1784871966, ISBN13: 9781784871963, [publisher: Random House 2017-01-05, London] Softcover Language: ENG
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]

ISBN10: 0099506165, ISBN13: 9780099506164, [publisher: Random House 2006-10-05, London] Softcover Language: ENG
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 059332126X, ISBN13: 9780593321263, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2022-05-24, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]

London Everyman 2022 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.

London Random House 2006 Revised ed. Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

Everyman's Library 2022 Hardcover New jacket

[publisher: HARVILL] Softcover 1995 RPT PB FINE BLUE PICTORIALCARD COVERS
[PLYMOUTH, DEVON, United Kingdom]

ISBN10: 0060913843, ISBN13: 9780060913847, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers] Softcover Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]