Novels Plot Summary 162: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was originally published in Russian in 1962. The novel was first published in the Soviet Literary magazine "Novy Mir", New World.

Set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, the story tells about a day in the life of an ordinary prisoner named Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

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