Yama (The Pit)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his masterpiece The Duel. Yama tells the story of the everyday life of the prostitutes in Odessa. This book is an overwhelming, truthful and staggering indictment of the immemorial evil of prostitution. No sheepish morality is here, but sheer, stark truth.