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Kolyma tales

Varlam Shalamov ; translated from the Russian by John Glad

(Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Penguin, c1994

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"This collection published in Penguin Books 1994"--T.p. verso of some copies

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Through the Snow 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 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 Seizure An Epitaph Handwriting The Businessman Captain Tolly's Love In the Bathhouse The Green Procurator My First Tooth Prosthetic Appliances The Train The Red Cross Women in the Criminal World 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

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Details

  • NCID
    BA23336423
  • ISBN
    • 0140186956
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    rus
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 508 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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