by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264000705
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A moving representation of life in a Soviet labor camp, 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offers an intimate look at the daily struggle for survival and human dignity under inhuman conditions. Through the eyes of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, the reader experiences a single day in the life of a prisoner, marked by cold, hunger, and exhausting work, but also by moments of camaraderie and resistance.
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.
