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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — WisdomDeck honest review
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Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Patients in a Tashkent cancer ward in 1955, an exile, a party official, a young student, face death and the thaw together. Solzhenitsyn's most humane novel.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Death equalizes.
  2. What do men live by?
  3. Freedom tastes strange at first.

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