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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

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Morris Katz recommends it
Um, I'll do uh Life and Fate by Vaseli Gman. A really, I think, stunning kind of human portrayal um of the ramifications of the Holocaust in that entire era. Um, Shame by McKenna Goodman, a really, I think, beautiful book of of uh kind of the friction of isolation and dreams and anxiety.

on a podcast · 24 Jul 2026 · Report

Antony Beevor recommends it
These were the notebooks that we worked on in Moscow and one realised that here was most of the raw material for Life and Fate which I think is probably the most important work of fiction about World War II.

on fivebooks.com · 1 Jun 2019 · Report

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