Fiction1998 · 142 pages
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
About this book
The extraordinary One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph of will over relentless dehumanization, this is Alexander Sotzhenitsyn's first novel to win international acclaim. The Soviet Union eventually revoked the author's citizenship and had him deported, and he only returned recently after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.