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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 of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 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. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author''s ownSolzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recoveredthe patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal

Cancer Ward

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    A Paperback / softback by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell, David Burg

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 14 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9780374534714
      978-0374534714
      ISBN-10 0374534713

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 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. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author''s ownSolzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recoveredthe patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal

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