Magda Achim

3 books

Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov

Kolyma Stories

Varlam Shalamov

768 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories by Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov

Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

Donald Rayfield, Varlam Shalamov

576 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced
The Golden Calf by Evgeny Petrov, Ilya Ilf

The Golden Calf

Ostap Bender #2

Evgeny Petrov, Ilya Ilf

336 pages • first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics funny reflective medium-paced