In the first circle: a novel, the restored text / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts.

By:

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008

Contributor(s):

Willetts, H. T

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxx, 741 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780061479014

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.7344 SOL

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Summary: Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	891.7344 SOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K871

Previously published (1968) in a shortened and altered ed., with title: The first circle.
TB1518/1
Rs.1025/-

"The first uncensored edition."--Cover.

Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description

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