THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Translation (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nazia Kamran Kashif In the house of Helios

In the house of Helios

but hiding behind a perfect facade

hidden between the lines of a history written by men

feel the sun warm your face

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Translation (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nazia Kamran Kashif In the house of HeliosHere was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich