General Information

Uniform Title

Zhizn' i sud'ba.

Author/Creator

Grossman, Vasilii, 1905-1964

Language

English.

Published

New York : Harper & Row, [1986], c1985.

Physical Description

880 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

On its completion in 1960, Life and fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the center of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family-- Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband who falls victim to antisemitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.

Subjects

Subject

World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.

Russia (Federation) > Volgograd > Fiction.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0060153652

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	891.73/42 GRO		General Stacks	-

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