Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov

Kolyma Stories

Varlam Shalamov with Donald Rayfield (Translator)

768 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author's own years in a USSR prison camp.Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictio...

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Moods

dark 92%
challenging 84%
sad 61%
reflective 53%
informative 46%
tense 38%
emotional 23%
adventurous 7%
hopeful 7%

Pace

slow 46%
medium 46%
fast 7%

Average rating

4.33

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