Grey is the colour of hope
Ratushinskaia, Irina2016
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This title tells the searing account of the author's experiences in a brutal Soviet labour camp. Only 28 when she was imprisoned for her poetry, Irina Ratushinskaya was already regarded as a leading writer of her generation, in the line of Mandelstam and Pushkin. She nearly died from maltreatment and a series of hunger strikes before eventually finding freedom. With surprising moments of humour, her inspiring memoir reveals how a group of incarcerated women built for themselves a life of selfless courage, order, and mutual support.
Main title:
Grey is the colour of hope / Irina Ratushinskaya ; translated from the Russian by Alyona Kojevnikov.
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2016.London : Sceptre, 2016.
Collation:
viii, 355 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.This translation originally published: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
ISBN:
9781473637221 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.735
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
1579933