Cancer Ward
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781448114467
Category: Fiction
Page: 576
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Language: en
Pages: 576
Pages: 576
FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ‘Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero’ Edward Crankshaw After years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. Brutally treated
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Language: en
Pages: 559
Pages: 559
"Cancer Ward" 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. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian
Language: en
Pages: 679
Pages: 679
Books about Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union
Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
To be vulnerable is to live.' In TALES FROM THE CANCER WARD renowned filmmaker Paul Cox celebrates the beauty and fragility of life. The unexpected message of illness that he is delivered leaves him feeling utterly alone and with no alternative but to confront his own mortality, to question the
