Cancer Ward [electronic resource]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn2011
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FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
'Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as
moralist, as hero' Edward Crankshaw
After years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis
brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and
faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union,
Kostoglotov finds himself thrown once again into the gruelling mechanics of a
state still haunted by Stalinism.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is
both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a
brilliant dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. Withdrawn from
publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world.
Main title:
Cancer Ward [electronic resource] / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Vintage Digital, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (576 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781448114467
Language:
English
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BRN:
428425
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