The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Paperback Book 9780140444568

In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy In this fictionalized account he recounts his souldestroying incarceration the daily battle for survival the wooden plank beds the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches his strange family of boastful ugly cruel convicts