One of Linda Grant's favourite books.
'It took three weeks to read and three weeks to recover from the experience. Novels fade, your immersion in their world turns into a faint dream, and then is forgotten. Only great literature grows in the imagination. Grossman's book did more than grow, it seemed to replace everything I had previously felt...In the seven years since I first read Life and Fat I have urged all my friends to read it... The novel should be as famous as Doctor Zhivago or The Gulag Archipelago. ' You can read Linda Grant's full Introduction to Life and Fate in this Orange Inheritance edition published by Vintage.
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This Orange Inheritance Edition of Life and Fate is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Linda Grant chose Life and Fate . This is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war.
Life and Fate features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Life and Fate is available in Ebook, Paperback
Life and Fate was written by Vasily Grossman and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage
Life and Fate has 864 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series
£13.49
