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Kolyma Tales

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov

1994·508 pages·Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics

classics memoir short stories

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.

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Kolyma Tales

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov

Year

1994

Pages

508

Type

Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics Literary Fiction

Tags

classics memoir short stories

Description

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.

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