Cancer Ward - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell (Translator), David Burg (Translator)Series:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2015-04-14Pages:544
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534714ISBN-10:374534713UPC:9780374534714Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, MedicalBook Topic:RussiaSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCNY98KW42
The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534714ISBN-10:374534713UPC:9780374534714Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, MedicalBook Topic:RussiaSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCNY98KW42
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Although permitted to...
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