02024cam a2200373 4500 536697141 TxAuBib 20220111120000.0 170206t20151968||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016591389 9780374534714 PAP 20.00 0374534713 PAP 20.00 TxAuBib eng rus Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. Rakovy korpus English. Cancer ward [BOOK] / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. Paperback edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. ©1968. 536 pages ; 21 cm. FSG classics Translation of: Rakovyĭ korpus. "Published in English in 1969 in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; first Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 1974; this paperback edition 2015"--Title page verso. 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. 20220111. Cancer Patients Fiction. Soviet Union Fiction. Political fiction. Medical fiction. Bethell, Nicholas, 1938-2007, translator. Burg, David, translator. FSG classics.