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Sacred darkness : the last days of the Gulag / Levan Berdzenishvili ; translated from the Russian by Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner.
Van Pelt Library PK9169.B424 C6513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berdzenishvili, Levan, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Cminda cqvdiadi. English
- Language:
- English
- Georgian
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Berdzenishvili, Levan--Imprisonment--Fiction.
- Berdzenishvili, Levan.
- Political prisoners--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Political prisoners.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Political persecution.
- Politicians--Georgia (Republic)--Fiction.
- Politicians.
- Labor camps--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Labor camps.
- Imprisonment.
- History.
- Georgia (Republic).
- Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- History.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Based on true events, a thrilling marriage of reportage and lived experience, this book tears apart the fabric of Russian Soviet repression with biting humor and wry insight. Here are stories of citizens who find themselves in extraordinary and remarkable conditions. Iona, the philosopher and bon vivant; Merab, whose discourses resemble those of Socrates; Irakli, the learned classicist; Anderson, the librarian; the gourmands, Maximovich and Petrov; Kukharuk, the barber. These people and many more form the unofficial aristocracy, the intelligentsia, of the gulag, and with them, serving a sentence for political agitation, Levan Berdzenishvili, to his surprise, spends some of the most enjoyable and enlightening days of his life"--inside flap of front cover.
- Notes:
- Original Russian title: Sviataia mgla: poslednie dni Gulaga ; original Georgian title: Cminda cqvdiadi (or Ts'minda ts'qvdiadi), ©2013 ; translation copyright ©2019 by Europa Editions.
- ISBN:
- 9781609454920
- 1609454928
- OCLC:
- 1041886667
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