Granta Books Kolyma diaries: a journey into russia's haunted hinterland, paperback/jacek hugo-bader

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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.