cover image Life and Fate

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.)