One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in...
(read more)
Top tags: fiction, russian literature, russia, literature, historical fiction
(all tags)