One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.Ĭancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by 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. The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death
Otherwise in VERY GOOD Vintage Condition ~The pages are clean and intact w/no writing, rips, marks etc.
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