One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

From the back cover of the 1963 Signet Classic edition: “This extraordinary novel is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. It is both a brutally graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization. A masterpiece of modern Russian fiction… .”