"...a fascinating, brave and in many ways heartening book ..." - Times Literary Supplement " ...some of the best of the enormous, mostly untranslated Gulag memoir literature." - Anne Applebaum, Literary Review (London) " ...probably the most gripping and detailed addition to the famous fundamental work by Solzhenitsyn. This book should be read by everybody ..." - The Spectator "How extraordinary it is that compassion and tenderness may flourish in the cruellest conditions; how stubbornly and bravely people survive them. This is not a depressing book but an inspiriting and encouraging one." - Doris Lessin
