The Archipelago of Another Life
  • Published:
    Aug-2020
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    240
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"This novel about hunting an escapee from Stalinist gulag reads like a Siberian Heart of Darkness."  -- ​Julian Barnes

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction.

Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks.

Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists, and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga.

But the fugitive, capable, cunning, and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within himself and the tantalizing prospect of another, totally different life.
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2020
    • Quercus Publishing
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0857057944
    • ISBN13: 9780857057945
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    • Jul-2019
    • Quercus Publishing
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0857057936
    • ISBN13: 9780857057938
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    • Oct-2021
    • Arcade
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1951627520
    • ISBN13: 9781951627522
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    • Oct-2019
    • MacLehose Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0857057928
    • ISBN13: 9780857057921
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    • Oct-2021
    • Arcade
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1950691748
    • ISBN13: 9781950691746



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