The First Circle The First Circle

The First Circle

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Publisher Description

At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, 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 beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.

Unwisely but generously, Innokenty 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. There are no heroes and hardly any villains; oppressors are no less victims then the oppressed.

In the great tradition of the Russian novel, The First Circle is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
30 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
592
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SELLER
The Random House Group Limited
SIZE
3.6
MB

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