Cancer Ward

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Published by: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991

Description: Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain," examines the relationships of a group of people in a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Through their stories, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has created a vivid portrait of life in the Soviet Union.