An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank. A beautiful memoir of resilience through Soviet repression and the Gulag that, like the author, beats the odds to survive.
Dalia Grinkeviciute's adolescence in a gulag prior to an escape and return to Lithuania is recorded on scraps of papers that were found buried and brought together into this memoir. A powerful account comparable to Anne Frank and Primo Levi.