by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490665824
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This book is a chilling testimony to the cruelty suffered by millions of deportees in Soviet labor camps. Through the story of Iván Denísovich Shújov, a prisoner in a Siberian labor camp, Solzhenitsyn immortalizes a drama that must never be forgotten. The work describes the terrible living conditions and the vexations suffered by the prisoners, offering a literary vision of the horrors of the Gulag.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
