num_pages: 536
description: Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. 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 Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.
language: English
title: Cancer Ward
titlecomplete: Cancer Ward
characters: Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
genres: Fiction, Medicine, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 16373
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Cancer Ward
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux