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Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • 560 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1968
  • 64 editions
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1 About this book

'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the Listener.

Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of Cancer Ward in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.

  • Political fiction
  • Medicine
  • Russia (federation)
  • Soviet union
  • Patients
  • Cancer
  • Slavic philology
  • Social conditions

2 About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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