Glagoslav Publications B.v. The monastery, paperback/zakhar prilepin

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The late 1920s.

Convicted of murdering his father, Artiom Goriainov is serving a sentence of several years on the Solovki Archipelago.

Artiom is a strong young man who survives all facets of the hell that is the Soviet camps: hunger, cold, betrayal, the death of friends, a failed escape attempt and a love affair.

Unlike the many political prisoners at Solovki, he has no strong convictions.

He is an everyman who, like the Virgil of Solovki, simply narrates what is happening in front of his e.