The cancer ward

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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death 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."Cancer 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

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Cancer
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
Patients
Political fiction
Soviet Union -- Fiction

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Contributors:
Bethell, Nicholas,1938-2007,translator
Burg, David,translator
ISBN:
9780374534714
9780374511999

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Cancer ward / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg
Cancer ward / Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg
The cancer ward / [by] Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Translated from the Russian by Rebecca Frank
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