Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman • 1980
Devastation Rating
war political literary fiction historical family
Our Take
The Soviet war on the Eastern Front as Tolstoy would have written it if Tolstoy had lived through the twentieth century and had no remaining illusions. Grossman's novel was arrested by the KGB. He was told it could not be published for two hundred years. He was right that it was dangerous.
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