num_pages: 701
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: French
title: Le Pavillon des cancéreux
titlecomplete: Le Pavillon des cancéreux
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: Fiction, Medicine, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 16372
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: Julliard