Mariusz Wilk was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1955. He was active in the opposition movement between 1977 and 1981 and was imprisoned for his involvement with Solidarnosc. He works as a journalist.

"the extraordinary record of six years spent by a Polish journalist on the Solovetski Islands the book evokes a Russia in miniature. By turns poetic, learned, pretentious, harshly evocative, it creates its own dense, surreal world, which tells more about the inner nature of Russia than a library of others." Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph "by turns grouchy and lyrical, [Wilk] draws out the essence of the Solovetski islands in Russia s far north and, in the process, provides unique insight into the country itself." Caroline Gascoigne, The Sunday Times

Mariusz Wilk was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1955. He was active in the opposition movement between 1977 and 1981 and was imprisoned for his involvement with Solidarnosc. He works as a journalist.

"the extraordinary record of six years spent by a Polish journalist on the Solovetski Islands the book evokes a Russia in miniature. By turns poetic, learned, pretentious, harshly evocative, it creates its own dense, surreal world, which tells more about the inner nature of Russia than a library of others." Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph "by turns grouchy and lyrical, [Wilk] draws out the essence of the Solovetski islands in Russia s far north and, in the process, provides unique insight into the country itself." Caroline Gascoigne, The Sunday Times

Mariusz Wilk was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1955. He was active in the opposition movement between 1977 and 1981 and was imprisoned for his involvement with Solidarnosc. He works as a journalist.

"the extraordinary record of six years spent by a Polish journalist on the Solovetski Islands the book evokes a Russia in miniature. By turns poetic, learned, pretentious, harshly evocative, it creates its own dense, surreal world, which tells more about the inner nature of Russia than a library of others." Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph "by turns grouchy and lyrical, [Wilk] draws out the essence of the Solovetski islands in Russia s far north and, in the process, provides unique insight into the country itself." Caroline Gascoigne, The Sunday Times