Name: In the First Circle
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Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
ISBN: 9780061479014

Type

Physical Book

Author

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

784

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x16.6x3.9 cm

Weight

0.80 kg.

ISBN

0061479012

ISBN13

9780061479014

Synopsis "In the First Circle "

The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time"Solzhenitsyn's best novel. ... A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers." --Washington PostMoscow, 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.First written between 1955 and 1958, In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes--including nine full chapters--were cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here for the first time is the complete, definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.