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Keep Forever - Gulag Memoirs (Paperback)
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Keep Forever - Gulag Memoirs (Paperback)
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Loot Price R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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In the freezing nights of a labor camp, fifty prisoners "settle in
like herring in a barrel, tightly nuzzled next to each other, and
someone among them would cover the rest with clothing." And then
the night-time storyteller begins his tale.
Aleksandr Sokolenko's four true stories of life in the Soviet
camps detail a world of baffling catch-22s, but also of intense
community. From farm work to timber-driving, wrestling marmots to
runaway brides, the daily reality captivates.
Vivid characters fill the pages: the aged merchant Semyonov's rich
life history and wry acceptance ("At least here, they can't arrest
you"); the thief-king who tries to break free from his followers;
the high-society orphan who turns barbering into an art; and the
inept, vicious Captain Ivanov. Stepping back to narrate their
stories as well as his own, Sokolenko offers us a broader picture
of the USSR and its history, as lived by his fellow inmates.
The human suffering is blunt and clear - scurvy, starvations,
injustice, drownings - but what lingers is a sense of humans'
capacity for kindness and boundless talents.
"Keep Forever," they stamped on his prison files, and "Keep
Forever" is what we must do with these stories.
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