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I have listened to BBC Radio Four’s eight-hour dramatization of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It is available at Audible. I cannot properly judge the book because I am unsure to what extent the prose has been altered in the audio version. I must make the assumption that parts have been cut.
I had difficulty keeping track of the story’s numerous characters. The German names were not difficult, but the Russian ones were. The sound effects all too often prevented me fro ...more
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