A review by mrlivia
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

Hard to put into words the emotional black hole that this writing conjures up. Felt as if I was being told stories from memories as they were recollected. It exposed a life and death in the camps that I cannot fully comprehend. The bodies will still be in the permafrost despite the deconstruction of the gulag. Gold and death remain buried