Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories by Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov

Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

576 pages | first published 2020

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The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from th...
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challenging 100%
dark 100%
informative 100%
reflective 100%
emotional 50%
hopeful 50%
tense 50%

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medium 50%
fast 50%

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