{"product_id":"cancer-ward-paperback-1","title":"Cancer Ward - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicholas Bethell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Burg\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eby Thomas Mann, 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. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own--Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered--the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Although permitted to publish \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962--which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990--Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers' Union. The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e, brought retaliation from the authorities. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976. In September 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him; Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227812348153,"sku":"9780374534714","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VXNEc0p5alRRQ2VHM255QXFPWlppQT09_a67cac0e-fbe4-4718-9ae6-f4948f22dc74.webp?v=1768285568","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cancer-ward-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}