One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presents a new translation of the fictional account of the daily hardships a prisoner endures in a Stalinist labor camp.

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Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison camp system, the author's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes.

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An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps.

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This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first objectives. Reading this book, you enter a world of incarceration, brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold - and participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life.

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One of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia, this novel is both a graphic picture of World War II work camp life and a testimony to the human spirit.

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The story of one man's struggle to survive in a Soviet work camp during the Stalin era.

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The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journalNovy Mirin 1962,One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichstands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps,One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichis one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.