num_pages: 742
description: Notice: In the First Circle and The First Circle: In The First Circle is 200pp longer; The first circle is a censored and abridged version.The thrilling cold war masterwork by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature published in full for the first timeMoscow Christmas Eve 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive stateor refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps . . . and almost certain death.First written between 1955 and 1958 In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors many essential scenesincluding nine full chapterswere cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator Harry T. Willetts here for the first time is the complete definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.
language: English
title: In the First Circle
publisher: Harper Perennial