Quote by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier – here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home.


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Author Bio


  • NameAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • AliasesAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • BornDecember 11, 1918
  • DiedAugust 3, 2008
  • CountrySoviet Union; Russia
  • ProfessionWriter; Historian; Novelist
  • WorksOne Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago; Two Hundred Years Together
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Medal "For The Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Order Of The Patriotic War 2nd Class; Templeton Prize