Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Offering a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, this book is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and a concentration camp are stunningly evoked, from their darkest to their most poetic moments.

Oferind un portret larg al unei epoci si o viziune infioratoare asupra Rusiei staliniste, aceasta carte este, de asemenea, povestea unei familii, Shaposhnikov, ale caror vieti in armata, gulag, un institut de fizica, o centrala electrica si un lagar de concentrare sunt uimitoare. evocate, de la cele mai intunecate pana la cele mai poetice momente.