Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)

Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the Battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia.

This immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicts a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.

With bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, this novel takes readers deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.

Life and Fate is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature, with unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity.

Don't miss out on this masterpiece that has been widely hailed as one of the greatest books of the 20th century!