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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1980
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 880

Through one Soviet physicist's family and the men fighting at Stalingrad, a vast novel weighs Nazi and Soviet terror side by side and asks whether a single free act still means anything.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil.
Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman

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