[Freee-dame]

Every high school student should read A S’s book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denysovich.” It short but has a big impact. “Gulag Archipelago” even more so, but it is a long and more difficult read.

[Texas Fossil]

Difficult indeed, I have it in my library.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...high school student should read A S’s book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denysovich.” It short but has a big impact...”

And CANCER WARD, especially the English translation offered in the 1974 Penguin edition is a fabulous novel. On the surface it is about a Cancer hospital in the Soviet Union. On a deeper level it is about the Soviet Union as a whole. On a still deeper level it is about life and its value and fragility.