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

576 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
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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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