Cancer Ward
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374118495 (0374118493)
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
20th Century,
Medical,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Nobel Prize
A story about patients in a Soviet cancer ward... how could that be uplifting? Yet it is! Solzhenitsyn’s characters are always fascinating, always memorable. They ponder the great questions of life, the human condition, the nature of the world, morality, love, hope, pain. His books are satisfying to...
A story about patients in a Soviet cancer ward... how could that be uplifting? Yet it is! Solzhenitsyn’s characters are always fascinating, always memorable. They ponder the great questions of life, the human condition, the nature of the world, morality, love, hope, pain. His books are satisfying to...
This was one of my favorite books, and this author, one of my favorite authors. And then I find out he's an anti-semite who also held strong discriminatory feelings toward non-Russian ethnic peoples. That explains a lot actually. There are a couple of sections in this book that portray non-white eth...
My father's graduate school mentor gave this to me when I was twelve; I think I made it about halfway through. It felt like penance. Am going to try it again.
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