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The industry of souls
- Title
- The industry of souls / Martin Booth.
- Author
- Booth, Martin.
- Publication
- Stockport : Dewi Lewis, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR6052.O63 I6 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 253 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested for spying in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. Presumed dead by the British Government, he survives 20 years in a Soviet labour camp. Eventually freed from the gulag in the 1970s, he finds he has no reason to return to the West - he has become Russian in everything but birth. He finds his way to the home of his best friend at the camp - Kirill. Taken in by Kirill's childless daughter and her husband he eventually becomes a local schoolmaster - much loved by all the village." "Now, on the day of his 80th birthday Russia is changed. Communism has evaporated. In the aftermath, information has come to light that he is still alive. The story moves from this day to his past in the camp and his life in the village. And it ends with him having to make a choice, perhaps for the first time in his life..."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1953-1975
- Geschichte 1995
- Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Fiction
- Undercover operations > Soviet Union > Fiction
- British > Soviet Union > Fiction
- Post-communism > Russia (Federation) > Fiction
- British
- Political prisoners
- Post-communism
- Undercover operations
- Heimatgefühl
- Strafentlassener
- Zwangsarbeit
- Straflager
- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union
- Russland
- Sowjetunion
- Briten
- Genre/Form
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Spy stories.
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- ISBN
- 1899235515
- 9781899235513
- OCLC
- ocm40138926
- 40138926
- SCSB-507150
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library