| Front Cover |
Book Details |
|
| Author |
| Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
|
| Subject |
Political persecution |
| Publication Date |
10/1/1997 |
| Format |
Paperback (230
x
153
mm)
|
| Publisher |
Bantam |
| Language |
English |
|
|
| Plot |
| Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men. A landmark of Soviet literature, The First Circle is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago. |
|
|
| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PG3488.O4 |
| Dewey |
920/Sol |
| ISBN |
0810115905 |
| Edition |
Northwestern University Press ed. |
| Series |
1969 |
| Volume |
213 |
| Cover Price |
$16.05 |
| Nr of Pages |
600 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
|
|