Just Send Me Word is based on a cache of letters held by Memorial, a Russian archive of the Gulag. They recount the undying love of Svetlana and Lev serving a 10 year sentence on a trumped up charge. No obstacle was too great to keep them apart. The tyrant Stalin's death eventually brought an end to their ordeal. They were to be reunited at last in a memoir wonderfully realised by Orlando Figes.
(David Graham - bwl 65 Summer 2012 ) |
