The Zone

Based on Dovlatov`s actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the incarcerated. A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov`s genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and humour, rendered in his characteristically sharp, concise and sardonic style. ISBN:978-1-84749-357-6