Kolyma Tales
ISBN 9780140186956 | 528 pages | 01 Feb 1995 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the north-eastern 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, their hopes and plans extending no further than a few hours. Foreword
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 ‘A brilliant literary talent . . . These tales are a handful of diamonds’ – Harrison Salisbury in the Chicago Tribune ‘One of the most awe-inspiring works of literature to have come out of the Gulag . . . his tales #are# at once a true historical record and a formidable piece of literary invention’ – Sunday Telegraph ‘The material itself would make these stories powerful: Shalamov’s talent makes them devastating’ – Sunday Times ‘Kolyma Tales poses the ultimate truth of gulag literature’ – Newsweek |
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