One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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• House of the Dead?

  This is an important book, perhaps the most important that has come out of Russia in many years. A completely authentic account of life in the forced-labor camps under Stalin, it is cast in a fictional form superbly adapted to its subject. Its narrat ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

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  I found it a famous classic only after finishing. (I got it from an anobbian) As the title suggested the story focused on a single day, about an innocent prisioner who was stuck in the stalinish labour camp. It was suffocating which thrilled the reader from their inner selves, not of the violence bu ... (continue)

  I found it a famous classic only after finishing. (I got it from an anobbian) As the title suggested the story focused on a single day, about an innocent prisioner who was stuck in the stalinish labour camp. It was suffocating which thrilled the reader from their inner selves, not of the violence but every meaningless and endless moments.
  Can't say it's my fav but definetely good for me to read something 'down-to-earth' apart from all those romantic unbearable lightness.

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  fruit said on Mar 10, 2008 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  Presumably a very accurate description of one man's day in his sentence in a Soviet gulag. Solzhenitsyn does a very good job of humanizing the characters and making you understand what they're going through every day. What's harder to understand is how people could survive in an environment like t ... (continue)

  Presumably a very accurate description of one man's day in his sentence in a Soviet gulag. Solzhenitsyn does a very good job of humanizing the characters and making you understand what they're going through every day. What's harder to understand is how people could survive in an environment like that in those conditions and (some of them) still be happy. I would make one slight recommendation though and that's to read this book in the summer, the description of the cold in Siberia will keep you cool no matter how hot it is outside.

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  Stcin10 said on Dec 21, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Great book

  Full of meaning, recommended!

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  Le Urban Reader said on Dec 3, 2008 | Add your feedback

• The cover shows 'Head', an ink drawing by Ernst Neizvestny, by courtest of the Grosvenor Gallery, London

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  scatterkeir said on Jan 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Once I started this book I couldn't stop - I finished it in the early hours of the morning. It sounds boring and depressing - one man's day in a Soviet labour camp - but it was totally gripping and incredibly moving.

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  Andy Neads said on Jan 21, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 192 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0679444645
• ISBN-13: 9780679444640
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Pub date: Nov 14, 1995
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livros em Português, Libri Italiani

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