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Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Burg, David
Bethell, Nicholas

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Literary CriticismClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 0374511993
ISBN13: 9780374511999
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.08
Height: 1.38 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.32
Language: English

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.

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