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The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time.

Solzhenitsyn''s best novel. . . . A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers.” —Washington Post

Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country''s brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller''s identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin''s repressive state—or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps . . . and almost certain death.

First written between 1955 and 195

In the First Circle

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    A Paperback / softback by Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780061479014, 978-0061479014
      ISBN10: 0061479012

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time.

      Solzhenitsyn''s best novel. . . . A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers.” —Washington Post

      Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country''s brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller''s identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin''s repressive state—or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps . . . and almost certain death.

      First written between 1955 and 195

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