Now in its first complete English translation this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag based on the authors own years in a USSR prison camp. Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentiethcentury literature an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes the second to appear in 2019 that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamovs stories and the only one