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Translated into English for the first time, this is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of ...
CHOSEN BY LINDA GRANT AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE - Vintage Classics has partnered with The Orange Prize ...
Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964.
Translated into English for the first time, this is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of the twentieth century
CHOSEN BY LINDA GRANT AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE - Vintage Classics has partnered with The Orange Prize for Fiction to ask six recipients of the Prize which book they would pass onto the next generatio ...
A Writer at War offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front and perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called 'the ruthless truth of war'.