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Cancer ward

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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Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world.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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Vintage Classics
0099575515 / 9780099575511
Paperback / softback
01/05/2003
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
569 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1968.
The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)