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  <title><![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]></title>
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  <default_description>Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy of the 1963 novel that won Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize is thirty-six years old, and it looks it--not just because it is dog-eared and the pages tinged yellow, but because the jacket copy is thick with Cold War fever. <br/><br/>This copy, for example, is &quot;THE COMPLETE, UNEXP...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22051015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't noticed how much this book had affected me until I sat down to dinner. Bear with me. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is a fascinating story in light of its historical context. While reading the book I had a hard time reminding myself that this story didn't take place in some ninetee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6898882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[* ma duce cu gandul la &quot;amintiri din casa mortii//f.m.dostoievski&quot; [inceputa, dar neterminata:], dar sunt stiluri diferite de scriere. ma bate gandul sa reincep &quot;amintiri..&quot; numai ca sa ii compar, sa simt pulsul fiecaruia si sa le percep perspectivele. dar inca nu sunt sigura. ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43784711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[G gak suka perang, dan buku ini menegaskannya!!!<br/>*cemberut*<br/>Kegilaan manusia menjadi suatu yg lumrah2 saja bahkan mendekati normal. Bisa dibayangkan tidak, dalam buku ini yang mengambil latar belakang jaman perang antara Rusia dan Jerman, seorang tahananan di hukum 10 sd 25 tahun tanpa men...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28586777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ivan Denisovich Sukhov is in prison - or rather, he is in a Siberian labour camp, placed there for a non-crime (being captured as a POW by the Germans, escaping and then telling the truth about it...). What this story is, is the account of one day of the three thousand six hundred and fifty-three da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39511520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Belum genap tiga hari kematian Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn pada usia 89 tahun kubaca, ingatanku melayang pada buku ini. Buku tipis cetakan pertama 1976 dari penerbit Pustaka Jaya yang berjudul asli <em>Odin den' Ivana Denisovitcha.</em><br/><br/>Sejak diterbitkan buku Solzhenitsyn pada tahun 1962 atas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29392449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it, even though I didn't give it five stars. I didn't give it five because at the end I wasn't blown away or something. The end just comes kind of natural like you'd expect, because it's the end of the day. And you know that Ivan is kind of like an animal now, and all he has are days and he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39712715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read &quot;One Day&quot;, I had a feeling I was reading an underappreciated masterpiece.  Why isn't this more widely taught in high school???  Yet I'm still struggling to grasp why I feel so strongly about it.<br/><br/>Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this book is that it is exactly what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26991528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This semi-autobiographical work is based on the author's times in a Soviet Gulag.  It was a very good read.  I really liked the fact that Solzhenitsyn set the story during the course of a day like any other.  Things happen to Ivan, but none seem like something spectacular or out-of-the-ordinary.  In...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2893071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;It was a good day, a happy day...&quot;  This is from the conclusion of a book about a day in the life of a political prisoner in Stalin's notorious gulag system.  Pretty subversive stuff, and got Solzhenitsyn in plenty of trouble of his own...<br/><br/>Not a long read at all, and will make ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41442992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems mean-spirited and unkind to complain about a book of this nature: I know the author suffered greatly in the Siberian work camp prison, which is the subject of this Nobel prize winning book.  I do sympathize but this book is boring and tedious.  One day in one prisoner's life---that's the st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38356529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It must be 35 years since I first read this book, and it is no less powerful the second time.  It recounts a day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in one of Stalin’s slave-labor camps in Siberia.  It is an almost minute-by-minute account, from the time Shukhov first opens his eyes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51160582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells the story of a man sentenced to ten years in a Russian work camp for being a spy, even though the accusation is false. However, Ivan is wise enough not to make waves or he might find another ten years put on top of his existing sen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50359804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I adore this book. I've had to replace my hard-copy twice - the first book literally fell apart, and the the second was lost in tokyo. I even admit to having an e-copy of it on my iphone. Do I love this novel because it has transformed my life in a deep and profound way? No.<br/>Is it because I am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77949714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps I've been desensitised to horror and suffering because there is so much of each on TV. Perhaps I've simply read a few too many accounts of life in concentration camps, early Australian penal colonies and Chinese <em>laogai</em> for my own good. Whatever the reason, I have to admit that <em>One Day in the...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71756536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Day In the Life is amazing because it is a day in the life of a prisoner in a work camp in Siberia (I think). It is unique because Solzhenitsyn himself spent years in a prison camp FOR his writing, so he is writing with a personal perspective of what it is like to live a day amidst years of painfu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56776425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a powerful little 182-page book.  It says so much in so little.  The plot is exactly what the title suggests--one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.  The lives of these prisoners are mind-boggling.  They are reduced to behaving like a pack of wild ani...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53872249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a man &quot;living&quot; in a Stalinist &quot;work camp&quot; in the nethermost regions of Russia where the prisoners hover on the precipice of live and death.  Survival depends on keeping your mouth shut, not attracting attention to yourself, and finding ways to ingratiate yourself to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53803833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've avoided Solzhenitsyn for a while as I'd previously gone overboard with Russian literature, and was a little worried about becoming bogged down in some more turgid prose.<br/><br/>Happily, this isn't a concern with <em>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch</em>. It's gripping. Not in a ripping yarns ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70810610">more...</a>]]></body>
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