One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is less book and more immersive experience.
Solzhenitsyn's bone dry description of the dreaded morning call to hard labour is a case in point. We're there with the lads, waiting to feel the icy blast of Siberian bitterness cut through all manner of makeshift clothing. Alternately heartbreaking, devastating, brutal and inhuman, what these mostly totally innocent men endured is beyond belief. Writers like Solzhenitsyn were indiscriminately handed down sentences of up to 25 years for crimes that no Soviet court felt bothered to explain, let alone justify,
Wear this garment to bear witness to the ordeal of political prisoners worldwide.