{"product_id":"life-and-fate-by-vasily-grossman","title":"Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9780002712071\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarpercollins, 1985\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e880 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn its completion in 1960,\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Life and Fate\u003c\/span\u003e was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman’s characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family – Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/span\u003e is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47495150239906,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/41A52KNMhqL._SY342.jpg?v=1785832669","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/life-and-fate-by-vasily-grossman","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}