Books by Varlam Shalamov, Donald Rayfield, Alissa Valles

A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do: “Roberts reminds us in this fresh book that there are still some mysterious parts of our world.” (link here )  Also of note is Varlam Shalamov, Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories , the first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well.