Kolyma Tales (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

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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• Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories
• Sofia Petrovna (European Classics)
• Journey into the Whirlwind
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Everything Flows (New York Review Books Classics)
• Kolyma Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
• In the First Circle
• A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II
• Soul: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)