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The Industry of Souls

(1998)
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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
The story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested for spying in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Presumed dead by the British Government, he survives 20 years in a Soviet labour camp. Eventually freed, he finds he has no reason to return to the west, and becomes a local schoolmaster.

Genre: Literary Fiction

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