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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first ap peared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibi lities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first o bjectives. Reading it, you enter a world of incarceration, brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold - and participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of lif e.

• author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn