Life and Fate
Ranked #23 in Russian, Ranked #40 in Communism — see more rankings.
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... more
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Antony Beevor Life and Fate…is probably the most important work of fiction about World War II. But, in fact, it is more than just a fiction because it is based on very close reporting from his time with the soldiers. It is a deliberate act of literary homage to Tolstoy as one can see in the title. It is definitely the War and Peace of the 20th century. (Source)
Francis Spufford It is about the strange interval of freedom during the Second World War in which the Soviet regime had to trust its people because it couldn’t compel their loyalty. (Source)
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Life and Fate is ranked in the following categories:
- #94 in Celebrity
- #99 in Long
- #61 in Russian History
- #85 in War Fiction
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