Set within the context of the battle of Stalingrad and the Second World War, and mixing historical characters with fictional characters, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is a historical fiction novel. The narrative follows individual members of the Shaposhnikov family and their friends and relatives as they live through the events in Russia surrounding the battle of Stalingrad. The novel explores themes of life, fate, death, and freedom.
Vasilii Grossman was a novelist and short-story writer who in his own way chronicled the tragic and bitter history of Russia in the twentieth century. His works explore the complicated events of the R...
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Vasily (Semenovich) Grossman