by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Alexander Dolberg (Translator)
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its appeal in the Independent, 'In waging his struggle against Soviet communism, Solzhenitsyn the novelist preferred the rapier to the cudgel'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 May 2003
ISBN 10: 0099575515
ISBN 13: 9780099575511
Book Overview: 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday Times