Synopsis
Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state.
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"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
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'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday Times
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