Cancer Ward (1968) [Novel]
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Summary
(From the publisher):
Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, examines the relationships of a group of people in a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Through their stories, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has created a vivid portrait of life in the Soviet Union.
Original title: Раковый Корпус (Rakoviy Korpus)
Original languages:
Russian
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
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