Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself.

A rare combination of exhaustive research and novelistic style, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the type of literary biography that appears rarely in a generation. D. M. Thomas depicts Solzhenitsyn's struggles, which led to years of imprisonment and subsequent exile, and paints a deeply affecting portrait of the intricate relationship between Solzhenitsyn's life and his art, always framing this masterpiece in the context of the historical times.