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Kolyma Tales

by Varlam Shalamov

Collection of devastating stories about survival in Soviet Kolyma labor camps

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Varlam Shalamov
Varlam Shalamov

Russian author whose Kolyma Tales, drawn from his seventeen years in the Gulag, are among the most harrowing and morally serious works of 20th-century literature. His spare, documentary prose refuses sentimentality.

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