The First Circle - Rilegato

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

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ISBN 10: 0060139498 ISBN 13: 9780060139490

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1968

Riassunto

Moscow, 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. --from publisher description

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Physical description: xiii, 580 p ; 25 cm. Notes: Translation of V kruge pervom (romanized form). Summary: The First Circle is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period. A young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the experience of acquiring an immortal soul. Unwisely but generously, he helps a friend in danger of arrest, only to be arrested himself and sent to a special prison. This, the archetype of the Gulag, is described with masterful psychological insight. Subject: Political persecution - Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1917-1936 - Fiction. Historical fiction. Russian fiction. Political prisoners. Forced labor - Soviet Union. Other names: Whitney, Thomas P. Genre: Novel, Fiction.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1968
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0060139498
• ISBN 13: 9780060139490
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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