num_pages: 560
description: The novel portrays the relationships of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a concentration camp, and later recovered.
language: English
title: Cancer Ward
titlecomplete: Cancer Ward
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Medicine, Classics, Nobel Prize, Russia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 16376
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.