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Cannibal Island is French historian Nicolas Werth's short account of the 1933 Soviet deportation of some 6,000 people to Nazino, a remote Siberian island, where starvation and violence killed thousands within weeks. It draws on NKVD archives and survivor testimony to reconstruct a little-known episode of the Gulag. The book is part of Princeton University Press's Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity series, edited by historians including Mark Mazower. It suits readers of Soviet history and human rights nonfiction rather than casual memoir fans, and it is a focused case study rather than a broad Gulag survey like Applebaum's Gulag.
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Reviewers treat it as a valuable, sober reconstruction of a forgotten Soviet atrocity, praised for its archival work and concision. Some find the material harrowing and the narrative thin on individual voices.
Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag is a paperback book by Nicolas Werth. It is part of the Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity series from Princeton University Press.
The book is written in English and is categorized as a biography and memoir.