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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

884 pages

About this book

Russian literature at its most magnificent and intense. This novel rolls like the steppe unforgivably barren and exhausting, on and on until the reader is left exhausted by the enormity of the story and its telling.

Themes
Dark & BroodingEpic & AdventurousHeartbreakingPhilosophy & Big IdeasThought-ProvokingHumanity amidst totalitarianismThe weight of historical memoryMoral courage in darkness
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