One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

FROM THE PUBLISHER OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
The officially approved translation of Solzhenitsyn's searing debut novel.

The Gulag—the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation—has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention.

• A powerful narrative: This story captures one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
• A window into history: It is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps.

Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts.