
In the First Circle
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Derek Perkins
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps...and almost certain death.
First written between 1955 and 1958, In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes - including nine full chapters - were cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here for the first time is the complete, definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.
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"[An] indelible novel of towering artistry, caustic wit, moral clarity, and spiritual fire." (Booklist, starred review)
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Fiction based on fact
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10 stars for the narrator, 10 stars for the book
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There are so many places throughout history that inspire questions starting with, "What was it like.."; this book addresses a place and time well worthy of learning about, and remembering.
I also enjoyed the spiritual aspects.
A treasure, educating and amusing
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should be read by all people who are free.
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Compelling
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Excellent
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In the trenches view of tomorrows America
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A moving witness to the dehumanizing evil of communism
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A sense of life under communism.
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Best Reread
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