num_pages: 576
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
titlecomplete: Cancer Ward
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: Classics, Nobel Prize, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Medicine, Fiction
ratings_count: 16375
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)