ruthiella 's review for:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.0

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This is a deceptively simple recitation of one man’s day, from when he wakes in the morning to the time he goes to sleep, as an inmate of a Soviet prison labor camp in Siberia under Stalin’s regime. It is both horrific and absurd. Even though the book is fiction, Solzhenitsyn did actually spend 11 years in a Siberian forced labor camp, so this is really a true-to-life dystopic novel of sorts.