Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

Awards:   Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015 Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015 (UK) Shortlisted for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015.
Author:   Jacek Hugo-Bader ,  Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Publisher:   Granta Books
ISBN:  

9781846275029


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   03 April 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland


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Awards

  • Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015
  • Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015 (UK)
  • Shortlisted for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2015.

Overview

From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia.

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Author:   Jacek Hugo-Bader ,  Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Publisher:   Granta Books
Imprint:   Granta Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9781846275029


ISBN 10:   1846275024
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   03 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Born in 1957, Jacek Hugo-Bader is a Polish journalist for the leading daily paper, Gazeta Wyborcza. An unconventional traveller, he has biked across Central Asia, the Gobi Desert, China and Tibet, and has kayaked across Lake Baikal. His journey by jeep from Moscow to Vladivostok in the winter of 2007 is described in his last book, White Fever. Antonia Lloyd-Jones' translations include work by Jacek Hugo-Bader, Artur Domoslawski, and Jacek Dehnel. She won the Found in Translation Award 2008 for her translation of Pawel Huelle's The Last Supper, and again in 2013 for having seven translations published in a single year. She is a mentor for the British Centre for Literary Translation's mentorship programme.

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