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Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964.The <i>War and Peace</i> of the 20th century
- Antony Beevor,
One of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century
Times Literary Supplement
It is only a matter of time before Grossman is acknowledged as one of the great writers of the 20th century... <i>Life and Fate</i> is a book that demands to be talked about
Guardian
One of the finest Russian novels of the 20th century
Daily Telegraph
What better time to read Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman's epic novel about the second world war, to put our current troubles into perspective? Grossman's book, which traces the fate of the family of the brilliant physicist Viktor Shtrum at the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, records how humanity endured the monstrous evils of Nazism and Stalinism, surviving like weeds in the cracks of concrete slabs
Financial Times