One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Sarah's Notes:
“Can a man who’s warm understand one who is freezing?” This compelling novel, based on Solzhenitsyn’s own excruciating experience as a political prisoner in the Soviet gulags of Siberia, requires—and ideally nurtures—the intellectual empathy of its readers for the fictional characters, and hopefully for the countless victims of communism the characters represent.