Of course Gulag Archipelago is his best known book, a masterpiece, but there were other books he wrote on other topics.
If ready for a short, intricate though incredibly grim character study,
take a look at his novel “Cancer Ward”, written in 1966. It describes day to day life in a Sanitorium.
A small group of patients in Ward 13. They are in a hospital located in Soviet Central Asia in 1955, two years after Joe Stalin’s death. This would make a good live play, in my opinion.
RE: Of course Gulag Archipelago is his best known book, a masterpiece, but there were other books he wrote on other topics.
I had the chance to read the English translation of Solzhenitsyn’s ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH, another masterpiece !!
The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
The book’s publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.