| Title | : | Cancer Ward |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell & David Burg |
| Release | : | 1991-11-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 1988930 |
| 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. |
