The Zone

Sergei Dovlatov author Anne Frydman translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:24th Oct '13

Should be back in stock very soon

The Zone cover

A classic, now available in a beautiful new edition

A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov's genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.Based on Dovlatov’s actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated. A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov’s genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style.

One wishes that he’d lived longer, been published sooner, given us more. -- Francine Prose

ISBN: 9781847493576

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 213g

192 pages