Kolyma diaries : a journey into Russia's haunted hinterland / Jacek Hugo-Bader ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

• 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 and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia. 

Ämnesord

Floder  (sao)

Resor  (sao)

Kolyma River Region (Russia) - Description and travel. 

Hugo-Bader, Jacek, 1957- - Travel - Russia (Federation) - Kolyma River Region. 

Voyages and travels  (lcsh)

Rivers  (lcsh)

Ryssland  -- Sibirien (sao)

Kolyma River (Russia)  -- Description and travel. (LCSH)

Russland  (gnd)

Kolyma-Gebiet  (gnd)

Russia (Federation)  -- Kolyma River Region. (fast)

Personnamn

Hugo-Bader, Jacek, 1957- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Kolyma River Region.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Nog Geografi: Sibirien

Klassifikation

DK771.K67 (LCC)

915.77 (DDC)

Nog (kssb/8)