Раковый корпус

'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.

First sentence: On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13.

Year

1968

Language

English

Series

Penguin modern classics

Publisher

Penguin

Editions

18

Pages

576

ISBN

9780141183244

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