The Cancer Ward Author:Solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr On the crowded pages of The Cancer Ward come to life men and women of every kind, good and bad, noble and treacherous, loving and lustful, proud and broken. Dominating the entire panoramic story is one of the most remarkable heroes of modern fiction, Oleg Kostoglotov. A still-young survivor of Stalin's prison camps, he is torn between his invo... more »lvement with a beautiful, sensual young nurse, and his growing love for an unselfish, gallant woman doctor, as he searches for the meaning of his life in the cancer ward.« less