| Author: | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ISBN: | 9781466839601 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | November 1, 1991 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN: | 9781466839601 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | November 1, 1991 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 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.
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.
