One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by James Dawe. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Following a typical day in a labour camp, as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, we are taken on a harrowing journey into a world where survival is all. We discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book and the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match. Through Denisovich's suffering we experience incarceration, brutality, hard 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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. In 1945, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died earlier this year at the age of 89.

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9780297858911
ISBN 10	0297858912
Titre	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Auteur	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
État	Non disponible
Éditeur	Orion Publishing Co
Année de publication	2009-07-02
Nombre de pages	192
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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