Kolyma Tales by Варлам Шаламов, John Glad, Varlam Shalamov

508 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary peop...

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