Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman was an internationally-celebrated war correspondent and his epic Life and Fate, often said to be the greatest novel to emerge from the Soviet Union, is a panoramic picture of the brutal conflict told through the lives of those fatedly linked to the Shaposhnikov family. After a new solidarity arises from the Nazi attack on Russia, the novel traces the return of an even more virulent strain of the pre-War Stalinist terror after the German defeat.