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Life and Fate : Introduction by Polly Jones by Vasily Grossman (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10059332126X
ISBN-139780593321263
eBay Product ID (ePID)19050080918
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife and Fate : Introduction by Polly Jones
Number of Pages952 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorVasily Grossman
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight29.5 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-288435
Dewey Edition23/eng/20231114
Reviews"Read it, and rejoice that the twentieth century has produced so thoughtful and so profound a literary humanist.... [It] provides us with some of the most troubling and occasionally uplifting examinations of the human heart to be found in contemporary literature. A novel for all time." -- The Washington Post "The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century.... Life and Fate will continue to dazzle and inspire--as unerring a moral guide today as it was fifty years ago." -- Foreign Policy " Life and Fate is a testament to the strength of character that terrorized human souls are capable of attaining. It is a noble book." -- The Wall Street Journal "[One of the] most ambitious novels of the twentieth century.... To call Life and Fate a twentieth-century War and Peace hardly does justice to its startling blend of taboo-breaking historical investigation, profound philosophical thought, and literary innovation.... Grossman sought to capture the scale and the ethical and literary challenge of unprecedented human suffering, while rooting the drama of Stalingrad and Stalinism in the timeless struggle for humanity and the individual soul." --from the Introduction by Polly Jones, "Read it, and rejoice that the twentieth century has produced so thoughtful and so profound a literary humanist . . . [It] provides us with some of the most troubling and occasionally uplifting examinations of the human heart to be found in contemporary literature. A novel for all time." --THE WASHINGTON POST "The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century . . . Life and Fate will continue to dazzle and inspire--as unerring a moral guide today as it was fifty years ago." --FOREIGN POLICY " Life and Fate is a testament to the strength of character that terrorized human souls are capable of attaining. It is a noble book." --THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "[One of the] most ambitious novels of the twentieth century . . . To call Life and Fate a twentieth-century War and Peace hardly does justice to its startling blend of taboo-breaking historical investigation, profound philosophical thought, and literary innovation . . . Grossman sought to capture the scale and the ethical and literary challenge of unprecedented human suffering, while rooting the drama of Stalingrad and Stalinism in the timeless struggle for humanity and the individual soul." --from the Introduction by Polly Jones
Dewey Decimal891.73/42
SynopsisThis 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 Grossman's 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. Grossman's 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, Grossman's masterpiece is a profound and moving reckoning with the darkness of the twentieth century and a testament to the stubborn persistence of kindness and hope. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
LC Classification NumberPG3476.G7Z3513 2022
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