Book 1988

First Circle

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Publisher: Harvill Press
Published: 1988

Soviet union, fiction
Fiction, historical
Fiction
Russian fiction
Political fiction
Prison Life in Fiction
Fiction, historical, general
Politics and government

Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.