Life in a Russian gulag, based on the author's own years in the Gulag, chronicled in an epic masterpiece. A masterpiece of Gulag literature, the complete Kolyma Stories is a thousand-page epic composed of short fictional tales based on Russian writer Varlam Shalamov's fifteen years in the Gulag. He spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma, a far northeast region of the USSR and one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on earth, before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his six-volume prose account of life...
Life in a Russian gulag, based on the author's own years in the Gulag, chronicled in an epic masterpiece. A masterpiece of Gulag literature...