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Cancer Ward
A Novel
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward 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. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.
Détails du livre
- Éditeur
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 1991
- Collection
- FSG Classics
- Langue
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466839601
- LAN
- 576871de3bbc