" . . . a fascinating, brave and in many ways heartening book . . . " --Times Literary Supplement" . . . some of the best of the enormous, mostly untranslated Gulag memoir literature." --Anne Applebaum, Literary Review (London)" . . . probably the most gripping and detailed addition to the famous fundamental work by Solzhenitsyn. This book should be read by everybody . . . " --The Spectator"How extraordinary it is that compassion and tenderness may flourish in the cruellest conditions; how stubbornly and bravely people survive them. This is not a depressing book but an inspiriting and encouraging one." --Doris Lessin