Cancer Ward
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 Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the...
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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 Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world.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'.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781448114467 (1448114462)
Publish date: October 31st 2011
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Health,
Medical,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Medicine,
Nobel Prize
Like the blood transfusion Kostoglotov received from Gangard, I literally felt this book flow through my veins. I was wary of the injection at the beginning, a bit numb in the middle and completely intoxicated toward the end.In fact, I think this might be the best piece of literature I have come acr...
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