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Just Send Me Word: A True Story Of Love And Survival In The Gulag (2012)

by Orlando Figes(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0805095225 (ISBN13: 9780805095227)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Metropolitan Books

review 1: I too felt reluctant to vote low with this one as so many people suffered in the Gulag and the couple in this story went through a lot. However, I am rating the book and not their lives. I read it for bookclub and thought it would be the best one of the year but was let down. It's a real missed opportunity. I would have preferred only her letters and seeing things from his perspective as he anticipates them in the Gulag or just simply the letters in chronological order. It could have been shorter and therefore retained more impact.
review 2: SO good, and unique, in fact, one-of-a-kind. The letters this family agreed to donate have become witnesses to Stalin's vindictive, merciless and pointless campaign against his own people, imprisonments that the history boo... moreks always seem to gloss over. I loved the ending, where Lev explains that the dream he had had in the Gulag of seeing Sveta and their daughter came true. The best part is that, although they didn't survive to claim a fairy-tale life, they survived, were still young enough to have children, and lived another 50 years together. That's the most awesome real-world happily ever after I've ever heard! less

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