Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

by Varlam Shalamov

Book Overview

The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.

In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168137367X
• ISBN13: 9781681373676
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"