Overview
A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov's genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.
Based on Dovlatov’s actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated.
A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov’s genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.
- | Author: Sergei Dovlatov, Anne Frydman
- | Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2013
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781847493576
- | ISBN-10: 1847493572
