One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The memoir contains a detailed account of the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and the author's often complex relationship with the editor-in-chief Aleksandr Tvardovsky. It also describes Solzhenitsyn's failed attempts to publish his other early novels, "Cancer Ward" and "The First Circle", the political storm caused by his 1970 Nobel Prize for literature and his subsequent exile from the Soviet Union.