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Kolyma Tales (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by John Glad (Translator), Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, Varlan Shalamov, Varlan Shalanov Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-14-018695-6 / 0140186956 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018695-6 / 9780140186956 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 a |