Cancer Ward
by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0140032290
- ISBN 13
- 9780140032291
- Seller
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Barberton, Ohio, United States
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Synopsis
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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- Bookseller
- Snowball Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PZ4044
- Title
- Cancer Ward
- Author
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0140032290
- ISBN 13
- 9780140032291
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Middlesex, England
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- On To-be Shelved Shelf
- Keywords
- SOVIET UNION FICTION CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN
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