Book description
Available for the first time in English, Apricot Jam and Other Stories
is the brilliant final work of fiction from Nobel Prize-winning author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Written in the years between Solzhenitsyn's
return to Russia from exile in 1994, and his death in 2008, these
stories confirm the author's position as the most eloquent and
acclaimed opponent of government oppression in the twentieth century
and as a true literary giant. Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a
series of astonishing portraits of the Russian life before, during and
after Soviet rule. In 'The New Generation', a professor promotes a
student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds
himself arrested and, in a striking twist of fate, his student becomes
his interrogator. In 'Nastenka', two young women with the same name
lead routine, ordered lives - until the Revolution exacts radical change
on them both. With an unforgettable cast of military commanders,
imprisoned activists and displaced families, these stories play out the
moral dilemmas and ideological conflicts that defined Russia in the
twentieth century.
