num_pages: 570
description: There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature - Stuart Hood in the ListenerSolzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went into the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of Cancer Ward in 1968 confirmed his as Russia's greatest living novelist. Cancer Ward was not published openly in the Soviet Union until permission for its serialisation was granted over two decades later, in 1989.
language: English
title: Cancer Ward
titlecomplete: Cancer Ward
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: 20th Century, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Russia, Medicine, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 16382
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: Penguin Books Limited