Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

I første krets er en roman skrevet av den russiske vinner av Nobelprisen i litteratur, Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn. Den ble publisert første gang i 1968.

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian …