Cancer Ward

Literary Fiction

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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…..Read More

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