Kolyma Tales Author:Varlam Shalamov, John Glad (Translator) It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the north-eastern 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, their hopes and plans extending no further than a few hours... more ».
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Kolyma Tales
Through the Dnow, On Tick, In the Night , Carpenters, An Individual Assignment, A 'Pushover' Job, Dry Rations, The Injector, The Apostle Paul, Berries, Tamara the Bitch, Cherry Brandy, A Child's Drawings, Condensed Milk, The Snake Charmer, The Golden Taiga, Vaska Denisov, Kidnapper of Pigs, A Day Off, Dominoes, Shock Therapy, The Lawyers' Plot, Typhoid Quarantine
The Left Bank
The Procurator of Judea, The Lepers, Descendant of a Decembrist, Committees for the Poor, Magic, A Piece of Meat, Esperanto, Major Pugachov's Last Battle, The Used-Book Dealer, Lend-Lease, Sententious
The Virtuoso Shovelman
The Seizure, An Epitaph, Handwriting, The Businessman, Captain Tolly's Love, In the Bathhouse, The Green Procurator, My First Tooth, Prosthetic Appliances, The Train
Essays on the Criminal World
The Red Cross, Women in the Criminal World
Resurrection of the Larch
Quiet, Grishka Logun's Thermometer, Chief of Political Control, The Life of Engineer Kipreev, Mister Popp's Visit, The Theft, The Letter, Fire and Water, Graphite« less
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