{"product_id":"cancer-ward-by-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn","title":"Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCategory: Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRating: 4.7\/5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 544\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/span\u003e is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/span\u003e, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Magic Mountain \u003c\/span\u003eby Thomas Mann, 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. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own―Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered―the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCancer Ward \u003c\/span\u003eoffers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FRIENDS BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53626568507665,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/5254\/9137\/files\/712SQh8jp1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1780731265","url":"https:\/\/bookmartpk.com\/products\/cancer-ward-by-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn","provider":"Bookmart.pk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}