A World Apart/the Journal of a Gulag Survivor (English and Polish Edition) - Hardcover

Herling, Gustav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877958211 ISBN 13: 9780877958215

Publisher: Arbor House, 1986

Synopsis

An account of the author's experience in a Soviet labor camp after Russia annexed Poland at the start of World War II, this book examines the daily life--appalling living conditions, grueling labor, perverse sexual abuse, and unlikely friendships--of the

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Polish (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

In 1940, after Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union, Polish writer Herling, then 21, was arrested on several false charges and placed first in a Russian prison, then in a slave-labor camp. This memoir, first published in 1951 and available here for the first time, is apowerful account of life in the Kargopol camp, where wretched conditions and subzero weather were only the outward signs of the prisoners' inhuman existence. Herling goes beyond the daily rounds of life to detail the psychological adjustments (the "Great Change") that required prisoners to eliminate all memory of the past to survive. In sharp, spare prose, he gives us the faces, moods and stories of these hopeless prisoners as they cope with hunger, pain and the ever-present fear of anonymous death. An important document of its kind. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0877958211
• ISBN 13: 9780877958215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262