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    "description": "<b>Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author&rsquo;s own years in a USSR prison camp.</b><br><br><i>Kolyma Stories</i> is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature,&#160;an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting&#160;the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the&#160;Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second&#160;to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first&#160;complete English translation of Shalamov&rsquo;s stories and&#160;the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text.<br><br>Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines&#160;of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic&#160;in the prison camps. He began writing his account&#160;of life in Kolyma after Stalin&rsquo;s death in 1953. His stories are&#160;at once the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record&#160;of the Gulag, and a literary work of unparalleled creative&#160;power, insight, and conviction.",
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