The most unusual book about life in the Gulag! When asked why he wrote down his memories of his years in the Gulag, Lewan Berdsenischwili replied: "This is not a book about me, but about the people I have come to know and love. Perhaps some of them will not recognize themselves, as the stories contain more truths about them than they themselves know or believe they know. It is a book not only about the trauma of this experience but also about the joy of exchanging with very different people who have faced the same fate." Berdsenischwili writes with fine humor and irony, sometimes full of sarcasm and nostalgia, about his fellow inmates and their guards. He follows the extraordinary, sometimes eccentric characters who, imprisoned for the most absurd crimes, are plagued by hunger and confinement.