![]() ![]() 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. Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union, Kostoglotov finds himself thrown once again into the gruelling mechanics of a state still haunted by Stalinism. 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday TimesĪfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. ![]() Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union, Kostoglotov finds. 'Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero' Edward CrankshawĪfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday TimesįROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO ![]()
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