by Vasili Grossman · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788419392749
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Life and Fate is a novel by Russian writer Vasily Grossman, published in 1980. The work tells the story of the Battle of Stalingrad and the lives of various characters during World War II. It is a war novel, a family saga, a political novel, and a love novel. The novel is set in the Soviet Union during World War II and follows the lives of the Shaposhnikov family, as well as other characters who are affected by the war. The novel explores themes such as totalitarianism, freedom, love, and death.
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino in the Donets Basin. In the 1930s he changed careers and began writing full-time, publishing a number of short stories and several novels.
