One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Description: A masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, this novel is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph of will over relentless dehumanization, this is Solzhenitsyn's first novel to win international acclaim. Introduction by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Review Quotes: "Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war."--Time

"Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude."--New Statesman

"Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category."--Washington Post

"Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record."--Library Journal