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"The unique characteristic of this world is that every life longs for freedom." An immortal masterpiece about personal life and human destiny, "War and Peace" in the 20th century, the first Chinese translation in the Chinese-speaking world has been newly revised. "Life and Destiny" is narrated against the background of the Eastern Front battlefield of World War II. The author Grossman's writing spans the entire Eastern Front battlefield in Europe. Compared with works of the same subject at the same time, although the core of the narrative of "Life and Destiny" revolves around the defense of Stalingrad, Grossman did not only focus on depicting the brutality of the war scenes. With Grossman's sword and pen, a historical picture spanning the entire Soviet Union emerges on the page, from the areas occupied by Nazi Germany, to the front line of the Stalingrad battlefield, to Moscow, which was almost empty to avoid the war, and even criminals serving in the Soviet Far East. Through the ingenious and precise interweaving and arrangement of storylines, countless living beings who have been submerged in history are brought back to life in the book, whether they are the obedient Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps, or the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the front line of the war; whether they were speculators and losers in the war years , bureaucrats who suppress dissidents, or intellectuals who adhere to principles and refuse to sell their consciences. Each character has become familiar because of their reality. Although this is a story that is very far away from us, it is still closely related to the life and destiny of everyone in modern society.