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Kolyma Tales

1994-07-28 Fiction
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Release : 1994-07-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 953/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Kolyma Tales by : Varlan Shalamov

Download or read book Kolyma Tales written by Varlan Shalamov. This book was released on 1994-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.

Kolyma Stories

2018-06-12 Fiction
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Release : 2018-06-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Kolyma Stories by : Varlam Shalamov

Download or read book Kolyma Stories written by Varlam Shalamov. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation “One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times). Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin’s death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and a literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction.

Kolyma Diaries

2014-04-03 Travel
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Release : 2014-04-03
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Kolyma Diaries by : Jacek Hugo-Bader

Download or read book Kolyma Diaries written by Jacek Hugo-Bader. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia

Condensed Milk

2014-03-06 Fiction
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Release : 2014-03-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Condensed Milk by : Varlam Shalamov

Download or read book Condensed Milk written by Varlam Shalamov. This book was released on 2014-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate. Written by Varlam Shalamov after his own experiences at a gulag, it describes the apathy of prisoners as they steadily approach death, the assuredness of betrayal and duplicity, and the constant craving for material satisfaction to lessen the empty, scorched feeling inside. When an old acquaintance lays out an escape plan, that satisfaction is offered in the form of condensed milk: a sweet, delicious extravagance - a small element of joy in the midst of impending death.

Kolyma Stories

2018-06-12 Fiction
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Release : 2018-06-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 150/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Kolyma Stories by : Varlam Shalamov

Download or read book Kolyma Stories written by Varlam Shalamov. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation “One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times). Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin’s death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and a literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction.

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