Cancer Ward
1968 · literary fiction · adult
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Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
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'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.
Set in
- ★Tashkent · Uzbekistan★ primaryTashkent, Soviet Uzbekistan in 1955 where cancer ward patients — including Gulag survivor Oleg Kostoglotov — grapple wit
