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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Start date: May 1, 2018

Finish date: May 31, 2018

Why we're reading this: May 2018 New School
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Oct 08, 2017 Beth rated it really liked it

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This was my first book by Solzhenitsyn and what an introduction.

We accompany Denosovich on just one of the 3653 days of his sentence, just one day, yet the majesty of the writing in this book leaves the reader feeling that they have served the entire sentence with him. The repetitiveness of each day, the biting cold, portrayed as so real that you shiver whilst reading it, the hunger pains and the clutching at scraps of food are written with such realism that you feel as though you live the exper ...more

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Jun 13, 2017 Jim Townsend rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Excellent bok about the absolute despair of the Soviet gulags, it was used by Nikita Kruschchev to denounce Josef Stalin. Who knew how such mundane things such as food, sleep, and a smoke could take such a role in such desolate circumstances?

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Sep 30, 2020 Darla rated it liked it · review of another edition

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“The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.”

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