One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Один день Ивана Денисовича
First published AD 1962, written in Russian
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
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Where it is set
- Karaganda
Kazakhstan
The labor camp featured in the book was one at which Solzhenitsyn had served some time, and was located in Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
