
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenicyn
Just got this brilliant book with the post today. I can't wait to start reading it but thought I would share it with you guys first.
"The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
It's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of "Stalinist repression" been openly distributed."
read more about it
here