About the book: 2016 / The book of the wonderful poet and writer Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov includes two cycles of his stories-memoirs about the Kolyma camps, where he spent almost twenty years. This is a merciless, extremely sincere and truthful story about the world on the other side of good and evil, where death is more real than life. About trampled human dignity, the vile “laws” of thieves and guards. It is addressed to the soul of everyone who can and is obliged to fulfill the author’s covenant: “This should not happen!"