I just started reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It's tells the story of a day in the life of a prisoner in a soviet prison camp, set in the early 1950's. I picked it up because the premise seemed interesting and also reminded me of Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead. Both authors had first hand experience of Russian prison camps. Seems like an interesting read and I'm surprised I've never heard of the author before, even though he won a Nobel prize for literature.
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