description: One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state.
language: English
title: CANCER WARD: PT. 2
titlecomplete: CANCER WARD: PT. 2
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Nobel Prize, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Medicine
ratings_count: 16373
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux