Growing up, this was one of my favorite books. People always think it's weird once I say that, and I agree, it is weird. But I grew up in a unusual household that appreciated all forms of Soviet literary dissonance. My father was a big fan of any text that criticized Communism down to the very last ...
Found this one a little dry, but it was a clear portrayal of gulag life, and the ways that people made sense of their time there.