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The Archipelago of Another Life (Paperback)
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"A Siberian Heart of Darkness" Julian Barnes On the far eastern
borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign,
soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the
atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among
them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last
great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the
apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red
Army's ranks. Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and
reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from
a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of
cynics, sadists and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt
through the Siberian taiga. But the fugitive, capable, cunning and
evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no
easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a
shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within
himself and the tantalising prospect of another, totally different
life. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
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