In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won’t go insane.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Natasha Pulley
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9781635573275
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