The Zone

Copyright © Sergei Dovlatov, 1982

Translation © Anne Frydman, 1984

Notes © Oneworld Classics, 2011

Author photo © Nina Alovert, 1980

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The Zone first published in Russian as by in 1982

This translation first published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985

This revised translation first published by Oneworld Classics Ltd in 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dovlatov, Sergei.

[Zona. English]

The zone : a prison camp guard’s story / by Sergei Dovlatov ; translated from the Russian by Anne Frydman.

p. cm.

Translation of: Zona.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-619-02034-4

1. Political prisoners—Fiction. 2. Soviet Union—Fiction. I. Title.

PG3479.6.O85Z3913 2012

891.73’44—dc23

2011037978

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