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A review by sloatsj
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
5.0
Such an excellent book. Vivid and brutal. The reader becomes the inmate, not gladly, but with great interest (and, unlike the inmates, not inextricably).
Some of the best Gulag/labor camp literature I've ever read. For me it's superior to [b:Survival in Auschwitz|6174|Survival in Auschwitz|Primo Levi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555421s/6174.jpg|851110], and richer (if bleak is rich) to [b:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|17125|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316638560s/17125.jpg|838042].
Some of the best Gulag/labor camp literature I've ever read. For me it's superior to [b:Survival in Auschwitz|6174|Survival in Auschwitz|Primo Levi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555421s/6174.jpg|851110], and richer (if bleak is rich) to [b:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|17125|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316638560s/17125.jpg|838042].