First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

581 pages hardcover 1968

36 editions

fiction classics dark reflective tense slow-paced
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In the First Circle depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of GULAG inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or a...

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