{"product_id":"life-and-fate-9781590172018","title":"Life and Fate","description":"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, \u003cb\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/b\u003e is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/b\u003e juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.36w x 1.87d","brand":"Vasily Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660811989148,"sku":"9781590172018","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1f201004-deb9-46a4-8eb2-3afe792e94ab.jpg?v=1603897597","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/life-and-fate-9781590172018","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}