by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
First published 2018
Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn navigates a bewildering new world. Grappling with his controversial views on the West, he meets with leaders like Thatcher and the Pope, while warning of the crumbling Soviet order and the chaos to come. As Solzhenitsyn straddles two worlds, he reckons with the erosion of religious and historical memory in both East and West.
Genres: history, literary-fiction, 20th-century, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, reckoning
Period: 20th Century
480 pages · Hardcover · University of Notre Dame Press