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

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Russian Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxx, 741 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780061479014
  • 0061479012
Uniform titles:
  • V kruge pervom. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.73/44 22
LOC classification:
  • PG3488.O4 V23 2009
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
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PG3488 .O4 V23 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001266278

Previously published (1968) in a shortened and altered ed., with title: The first circle.

"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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