Life and Fate

Synopsis

A book judged so dangerous in the soviet union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, life and fate is an epic tale of world war ii and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from germany to siberia, vasily grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.