Title: Kolyma stories
Description: "Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen year that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second the appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Political prisoners, Kolyma (Concentration camp), Fiction, Fiction, general, Soviet union, fiction, Kolyma (concentration camp), Political prisoners--soviet union--fiction, Language arts & disciplines--linguistics, Pg3487.a592 k6413 2018, 891.73/44, 18.53
Places: Soviet Union, Kolyma