The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story by Anne Frydman, Sergei Dovlatov

The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

Anne Frydman, Sergei Dovlatov

177 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction dark reflective slow-paced

Description

The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in the early 1960s. Snapshots of the prison are juxtaposed with the narrator’s letters to Igor Markovich of Hermitage Press in which he urges Igor to pub...

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challenging 100%
funny 100%
reflective 100%

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Loveable characters?

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Flaws of characters a main focus?

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