"A masterpiece...Squarely in the mainstream of Russia's great literary traditions."–
The Nation "An extraordinary human document."–
Moscow's Daily Mail "Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude."–
New Statesman "Stark...the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war."–
Time "Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category."–
Washington Post "Dramatic...outspoken...graphically detailed...a moving human record."–
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