Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.26

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One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state.

Genres: FictionClassicsRussiaRussian LiteratureLiteratureHistorical FictionNovels20th CenturyMedicinePhilosophy

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