Cancer case. Solzhenitsyn A.I.

A terrible disease gathered completely different characters in one building of a dirty and crowded hospital. All of them are an exile, an official, a young scientist, a builder and even a schoolboy, conduct ideological disputes among themselves and the fight against death.

The story is based on personal experience of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) and raises the deep philosophical issues of the human Genesis.

first published in 1968 abroad, the book was a huge success and became one of the factors of awarding to the author of the Nobel Prize.