Grossman, Vasily
Stalingrad
- ISBN 13:
- 9781681373270
- author:
- Grossman, Vasily
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- New York Review of Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 1088
- Dimensions:
- 20.3 x 12.7 centimetres (0.37 kg
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, War & Military, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Now in English for the first time, Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad is a powerful and compassionate novel about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg, agreeing on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union, which soon drives the routed Red Army back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. The story unfolds across Russia and Europe, featuring a diverse cast of characters, including mothers, daughters, husbands, brothers, generals, nurses, and peasants. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family, whose matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad, even as the Germans advance. Her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to a Jewish physicist, Viktor Shtrum, whose research may be of crucial military importance, but is instead consumed by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. This two-volume masterpiece is a testament to Grossman's extraordinary power and deep compassion, exploring the human cost of war and the enduring power of nature and life.
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