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Kolyma Tales »
Authors: Varlam Shalamov, John Glad (Translator), John Glad
ISBN-13: 9780140186956, ISBN-10: 0140186956
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: February 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Varlam Shalamov
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Through the Snow | 3 | |
| On Tick | 5 | |
| In the Night | 11 | |
| Carpenters | 15 | |
| An Individual Assignment | 21 | |
| A 'Pushover' Job | 25 | |
| Dry Rations | 31 | |
| The Injector | 48 | |
| The Apostle Paul | 50 | |
| Berries | 57 | |
| Tamara the Bitch | 61 | |
| Cherry Brandy | 68 | |
| A Child's Drawings | 76 | |
| Condensed Milk | 80 | |
| The Snake Charmer | 86 | |
| The Golden Taiga | 93 | |
| Vaska Denisov, Kidnapper of Pigs | 99 | |
| A Day Off | 103 | |
| Dominoes | 107 | |
| Shock Therapy | 114 | |
| The Lawyers' Plot | 126 | |
| Typhoid Quarantine | 147 | |
| The Procurator of Judea | 173 | |
| The Lepers | 177 | |
| Descendant of a Decembrist | 184 | |
| Committees for the Poor | 200 | |
| Magic | 217 | |
| A Piece of Meat | 222 | |
| Esperanto | 232 | |
| Major Pugachov's Last Battle | 241 | |
| The Used-Book Dealer | 257 | |
| Lend-Lease | 275 | |
| Sententious | 284 | |
| The Seizure | 295 | |
| An Epitaph | 298 | |
| Handwriting | 314 | |
| The Businessman | 320 | |
| Captain Tolly's Love | 325 | |
| In the Bathhouse | 336 | |
| The Green Procurator | 343 | |
| My First Tooth | 380 | |
| Prosthetic Appliances | 388 | |
| The Train | 392 | |
| The Red Cross | 405 | |
| Women in the Criminal World | 415 | |
| Quiet | 435 | |
| Grishka Logun's Thermometer | 443 | |
| Chief of Political Control | 451 | |
| The Life of Engineer Kipreev | 456 | |
| Mister Popp's Visit | 475 | |
| The Theft | 487 | |
| The Letter | 489 | |
| Fire and Water | 495 | |
| Graphite | 503 |
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