The First Circle
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set within the claustrophobic confines of a sharashka—a specialized prison research facility in the Moscow suburbs—this gripping novel follows the lives of incarcerated scientists and intellectuals forced to serve the Soviet state. The narrative centers on Gleb Nerzhin, the author’s autobiographical alter ego, and his fellow inmates as they navigate the brutal contradictions of Stalinist Russia. When a high-ranking diplomat, Innokenty Volodin, makes a fatal moral choice to warn a friend of potential state betrayal, he becomes ensnared in the same oppressive apparatus that seeks to strip these men of their dignity, setting in motion a tense and harrowing exploration of conscience under totalitarian rule.
The First Circle
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set within the claustrophobic confines of a sharashka—a specialized prison research facility in the Moscow suburbs—this gripping novel follows the lives of incarcerated scientists and intellectuals forced to serve the Soviet state. The narrative centers on Gleb Nerzhin, the author’s autobiographical alter ego, and his fellow inmates as they navigate the brutal contradictions of Stalinist Russia. When a high-ranking diplomat, Innokenty Volodin, makes a fatal moral choice to warn a friend of potential state betrayal, he becomes ensnared in the same oppressive apparatus that seeks to strip these men of their dignity, setting in motion a tense and harrowing exploration of conscience under totalitarian rule.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set within the claustrophobic confines of a sharashka—a specialized prison research facility in the Moscow suburbs—this gripping novel follows the lives of incarcerated scientists and intellectuals forced to serve the Soviet state. The narrative centers on Gleb Nerzhin, the author’s autobiographical alter ego, and his fellow inmates as they navigate the brutal contradictions of Stalinist Russia. When a high-ranking diplomat, Innokenty Volodin, makes a fatal moral choice to warn a friend of potential state betrayal, he becomes ensnared in the same oppressive apparatus that seeks to strip these men of their dignity, setting in motion a tense and harrowing exploration of conscience under totalitarian rule.
