A review by paulataua
Yama: The Pit by Aleksandr Kuprin

3.0

Set in a brothel, it is about the lives of the women who work there and their clients, at first, during one day and night, and then during the following next months. Zuprin sets about describing the humanity found in the goings on. There are some real positives in the book, including his detailed descriptions of people, but I am not convinced by the writing, or perhaps by the translation. The whole thing lacks the passion that one finds in something like Zola’s ‘Nana’ .