# Sketches of the Criminal World

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- Book: [Sketches of the Criminal World](https://www.bookquiver.com/varlam-shalamov/sketches-of-the-criminal-world) ([Sketches of the Criminal World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/varlam-shalamov/sketches-of-the-criminal-world.md))
- Authors: [Varlam Shalamov](https://www.bookquiver.com/varlam-shalamov), [Alissa Valles](https://www.bookquiver.com/alissa-valles), [Donald Rayfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-rayfield)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-367-6
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2020-01-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories. In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen...