The first circle
Subtitle: a novel
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts.
Contributors: Willetts, H. T.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
ISBN-13: 9780061479014
Subjects: Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: V kruge pervom.
Description: Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description.