{"product_id":"cancer-ward","title":"Cancer Ward","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Mann, 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. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own--Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered--the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Cancer Ward","offer_id":46532880892101,"sku":null,"price":62.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-374-53471-4.jpg?v=1783984198","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/cancer-ward","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}