Cancer Ward (Paperback) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell, David Burg

from DieFledermaus

This expansive novel follows the lives of a group of patients in the cancer ward of a provincial hospital. Solzhenitsyn based it on actual experience and used the sickness as a metaphor for the Soviet gulag system - "A man dies from a tumor, so how can a country survive with growths like labor ca...

from deebee1

A very moving story of life and death, of disease and recovery, of love and discovery. We get a glimpse of the lives of the patients in the male cancer ward, and the medical team, none of whom escaped the long and heavy arm of the Stalin regime and thus have a story to tell. The main character, K...

from deebee1

A very moving story of life and death, of disease and recovery, of love and discovery. We get a glimpse of the lives of the patients in the male cancer ward, and the medical team, none of whom escaped the long and heavy arm of the Stalin regime and thus have a story to tell. The main character, K...

from Cecilturtle

There is something phenomenally modern about this novel. The physical and mental fatigue of the doctors and the patients. The differences in cast and how they translate into disdain or fear. The hopes and anger against fate, dogma, systems or even of our very own selves. Solzhenistyn constructs a...

from Cecilturtle

There is something phenomenally modern about this novel. The physical and mental fatigue of the doctors and the patients. The differences in cast and how they translate into disdain or fear. The hopes and anger against fate, dogma, systems or even of our very own selves. Solzhenistyn constructs a...