As this was set as part of your summer reading I thought it would be helpful to post this BBC review here. This review explains the origins and importance of the November 1962 book, suggesting that “it is now regarded as one of the most significant books of the 20th Century”. You may like to also read this article on Solzhenitsyn entitled A tortured patriot .
Perhaps we should leave the last word with the writer himself.
“It was still dark, although a greenish light was brightening in the east. A thin, treacherous breeze was creeping in from the same direction. There is no worse moment than when you turn out for work parade in the morning. In the dark, in the freezing cold, with a hungry belly, and the whole day ahead of you. You lose the power of speech…”
Mr Kydd.
