A review by micklesreads
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, David Burg, Nicholas Bethell

3.0

I don't know what it was that gave me trouble with this book because it is obviously a masterpiece. Sometimes, we approach a book at the wrong time. I probably should have put this down and come back to it later, which would have made it less of a slog to get through, but I'd done that twice and didn't want to abandon it again. I'm glad I stuck with it as the second half of the book, concentrating more on Kostoglotov, was much better for me than the first.

Also, totally randomly I discovered that Solzhenitsyn's musings about dogs are some of the most touching portrayals of the animals that I've ever encountered.