The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney

580 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction classics dark reflective tense slow-paced

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Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar yea...

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