Cancer Ward

Informationen zum Autor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle . In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel . In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008. Klappentext A compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a dissection of the Soviet police state. Zusammenfassung FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO‘Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero’ Edward CrankshawAfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13.

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Assisted by: Alexander Dolberg (Translation), Dolberg Alexander (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780099575511
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957551-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Uzbekistan, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, Narrative theme: Social issues, c 1950 to c 1959, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary