Kolia

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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781770896741

<p>Set against the backdrop of Stalinism and then the collapse of the USSR, <em>Kolia</em> is a luminous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s.</p> <p>Kolia’s life begins in a labour camp in eastern Siberia in 1937. Iosif, a prisoner originally from Western Europe, teaches him the basic knowledge for survival in the harsh environment of the Gulag, but he also teaches him calculus, Russian, and French, before disappearing like most people who have lived in the open-air prison.</p> <p>After Stalin’s death, <em>Kolia</em> is released and he’s thrown into Soviet society. He joins a circus in Moscow, where he finds the comfort of a family and is successful until the collapse of the USSR. But the memory of Josef and the Gulag haunt him all his life.</p> <p><em>Kolia</em> is a moving and deeply human novel that beautifully illustrates the resilience of the human spirit.</p>