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SOLZHENITSYN – ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

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£145.00
First English translation, published by Victor Gollancz, 1963.

One of the most groundbreaking novels to come out of the Soviet Union, launching it’s creator, Alexander Solzhenitsyn- a mathematics teacher in a Ryazan high school, to international fame. First published in Novy Mirliterary magazine, this novel was the first account of Stalinist oppression to be published in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn presents a harrowing story of survival in a gulag labour camp through the daily struggles of Ivan Denisovich, an innocent citizen accused of spying, forced to ten years of labour.