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Cancer Ward Summary & Study Guide Description
Cancer Ward Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Cancer Ward is a novel about a Soviet man, Oleg Kostoglotov, who is admitted to a Soviet hospital somewhere in Asia, and is treated for several months for a tumor. As Oleg communicates with his fellow patients and interacts with the physicians treating him, he learns to define himself and his future. Emerging from years of prison camps and exile, Oleg discovers he still has the capacity to love. He also learns that even a strong man as himself can be brought down by disease, and can be brought down by the overwhelming cruelty of the Soviet system.
Through a series of incidents, examples of other citizens, and conversations between the patients, the faults of the Soviet system are exposed and criticized by the author.
The story begins with Pavel, a member of the Soviet secret service, being admitted into the cancer ward, and his...
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