A World Apart
A World Apart by Gustaw Herling is a reprint edition published by Penguin Books in 1996, featuring 262 pages in English. This book presents a personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp, detailing the author’s experiences after his arrest in 1940 for joining an underground Polish army. Herling recounts the hardships faced by him and his fellow prisoners, emphasizing their resilience and the community they formed under dire circumstances.
Readers will find a vivid exploration of survival and human spirit amidst the brutal realities of a labor camp. The narrative delves into the relationships forged between inmates, highlighting their shared struggles and the hope that emerged in a seemingly hopeless environment. With themes rooted in biography, history, and military experiences, A World Apart offers a profound insight into the capacity for human connection and endurance in the face of adversity.
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A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp
In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most terrible years of his life. In A World Apart, he tells of the people he was imprisoned with, the hardships they endured, and the indomitable spirit and will that allowed them to survive. Above all, he creates portraits of how people – deprived of basic human necessities and forced to worked at hard labor – can come together to form a community that offers hope in the face of hopelessness, that offers life when even the living have no life left.
“Should be published and read in every country.” -Albert Camus
“In psychological and moral penetration and artistic power A World Apart equals Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s House of the Dead, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz.” -Louse Begley, New York Times Book Review
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