Vasily Grossman (Author)
Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter
for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a
legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered
a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that
there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200
years. Grossman died in 1964.
Robert Chandler (Translator)
Robert Chandler is the celebrated translator of Life and Fate by
Vasily Grossman. He has edited and translated numerous Russian
titles, including the complete works of Platonov. He is the editor
of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
One needs time and patience to read Stalingrad, but it is worth it.
Moving majestically from Berlin to Moscow to the boundless Kazakh
steppe… A multitude of lives and fates are played out against a
vast panoramic history
*Evening Standard, *Book of the Week**
If you have read Grossman before, you will already very likely know
that you urgently want to read Stalingrad. If you haven’t, I can
only tell you that when you do read this novel, you will not only
discover that you love his characters and want to stay with them –
that you need them in your life as much as you need your own family
and loved ones – but that at the end, despite having finished an
892-page novel, you want to read it again
*Daily Telegraph*
This is a big event… [Stalingrad] gives voice to a dizzying array
of experiences… [you] feel as though you are there, wandering
through those devastated streets among the starving, dead, and
mad
*Daily Mail*
A dazzling prequel… His descriptions of battle in an industrial age
are some of the most vivid ever written… Stalingrad is Life and
Fate’s equal. It is, arguable, the richer book – shot through with
human stories and a sense of life’s beauty and fragility
*Observer*
Few works of literature since Homer can match the piercing,
unshakably humane gaze that Grossman turns on the haggard face of
war
*The Economist*
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