Cancer Ward - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374511993 ISBN 13: 9780374511999

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991

Synopsis

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.

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Review:

"A literary event of the first magnitude." --"Time"
"The most moving of Solzhenitsyn's novels." --Clifton Fadiman

A literary event of the first magnitude. "Time"

The most moving of Solzhenitsyn's novels. "Clifton Fadiman""

"A literary event of the first magnitude." --Time

"The most moving of Solzhenitsyn's novels." --Clifton Fadiman

Book Description:

'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0374511993
• ISBN 13: 9780374511999
• Binding: Paperback