Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a masterfully written, insightful and poetic indictment of communism in Russia. Viewed through the lens of the lives of a cast of colorful patients and healthcare personnel at a cancer ward of an unnamed hospital in Tashkent in...
To fully comprehend that the roots of the human soul extend all the way to hell, as Jung implied, is to grasp the essence of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. This seemingly mundane tale, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, recounts a single day in the life of Ivan...
This was my third Murakami book (after Kafka on the Shore and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running), and I found it to be quite a departure from the dream-like fantasy and World War II themes for which he is renowned. South of the Border, West of the Sun is...
The Gulag Archipelago is without a doubt the heaviest book I have ever read in my life. It took enormous mental fortitude and discipline for me to perservere to the end. This was in no way due to any fault of the author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who deserves full...
I am currently busy writing part two of Children of the Ocean God. As you can imagine, in a novel such as this it is important to create an authentic picture of what life was like during the historical period in which the events are set. To achieve this I am weaving...
