Cancer Ward

“Cancer Ward” is a novel by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, written between 1963 and 1967. It is based on the author’s personal experience while he was being treated for cancer in a Tashkent hospital. The work focuses on patients in an oncology ward in a Soviet hospital, detailing their fates, relationships, and anxieties in the face of a fatal illness. Through the characters’ stories, the author explores moral and philosophical questions concerning life, death, freedom, and responsibility within the context of Soviet reality.