About “The Monastery”
The Monastery is a historical novel by Russian author Zakhar Prilepin, set in the Solovki prison camp on the Solovki Islands in the White Sea during the late 1920s. The story portrays life within the camp, focusing on the experiences of prisoners and guards. It was published in 2014 by the AST publishing house. The novel later inspired a television adaptation in 2020, directed by Alexander Veledinsky and starring Sergey Bezrukov. The adaptation was an eight-part series that brought the novel's themes to a broader audience. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 2014
Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.