In the First Circle: The Restored Text, Paperback

A major literary event 50 years in the making: In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "best novel" (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the country's brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalin's repressive state.