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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

(50th Anniversary Edition)

By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Afterword by Eric Bogosian

By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Afterword by Eric Bogosian

By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Afterword by Eric Bogosian

By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Afterword by Eric Bogosian

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Aug 04, 2009 | ISBN 9780451228147

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Aug 06, 2008 | ISBN 9780451531049

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    About One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago.

    In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
     
    First published in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.

    Includes an Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    and an Afterword by Eric Bogosian

    About One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago.

    In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
     
    First published in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.

    Includes an Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    and an Afterword by Eric Bogosian

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    About Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, a year after the Bolsheviks stormed to power throughout Russia. He studied at the University of Rostov and served with distinction in the Russian Army during World War II. In 1945, he was arrested… More about Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    About Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, a year after the Bolsheviks stormed to power throughout Russia. He studied at the University of Rostov and served with distinction in the Russian Army during World War II. In 1945, he was arrested… More about Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Berkley
    Aug 04, 2009 | 208 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780451228147

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    Aug 06, 2008 | 176 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451531049
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    Praise

    “A masterpiece…Squarely in the mainstream of Russia’s great literary traditions.”—The Nation
     
    “An extraordinary human document.”—Moscow’s Daily Mail

    “Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.”—New Statesman

    “Stark…the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.”—Time

    “Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.”—Washington Post

    “Dramatic…outspoken…graphically detailed…a moving human record.”—Library Journal

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