Kolyma Tales
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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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Foreword
Through the Snow
On Tick
In the Night
Carpenters
An Individual Assignment
A ‘Pushover’ Job
Dry Rations
The Injector
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
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) was a Russian writer, poet, and journalist. He survived 17 years of incarceration in the Gulag for speaking out against the Soviet Union. His collection of essays, Kolyma Tales, details his experiences under the Soviet government.
John Glad (1941-2015) was an American scholar who specialized in Russian literature. He taught Russian at the University of Maryland and Rutgers University. Additionally, Glad was a notable translator of speeches by Mikhail Gorbachev, and also of Russian literature, particularly the works of Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. US
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