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Dec 06, 2011 this is the voice of anna semyonovna shtrum, writing her last letter to her son viktor, in vasily grossmans epic novel life and fate. The soviet writer bore witness to the horrors of russias world war two and the shoah and deserves a place in literary history, says scholar maxim d shrayer. John and carol garrard remain the best informed and most dedicated students of his life and work. Vasily grossman project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Four years before his death the kgb confiscated the manuscript of the book, doing their utmost to ensure that not a single copy remained.
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