Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman. Harvill Press, $16.5 (880pp) ISBN 978-1-86046-019-7
In 1961, this epic WWII Russian novel about the battle of Stalingrad was seized for being ``anti-Soviet'' by the KGB; it was finally published almost 20 years after the author's death, when a dissident publisher smuggled a microfilm copy to the West. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 02/01/2003
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 912 pages - 978-0-09-950616-4