Kolyma Tales
1978 · 508 pages
Shalamov spent seventeen years in the Kolyma camps. His stories are short, about frostbite and stolen bread and men too weak to lift a shovel, and he insists that suffering teaches nothing.
★ 7.1
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Long Walk to Freedom
1994 · 638 pages
Twenty-seven years in apartheid South Africa's prisons, set down without self-pity by the man who opened negotiations with his jailers from inside and then governed the country that had caged him.
★ 5.8