Solzhenitsyn Author:David Burg, George Feifer "For more than two years, George Feifer... and Russian-born David Burg... have been researching and writing Solzhenitsyn, often working under hazardous conditions.... The authors of this authoritative work believe 'it is precisely while he is alive and at the height of his artistic powers that his role in Russian life should be... more » made clear.' Here then, is the first biography to tell of Solzhenitsyn's family origins; how, as a war hero, he was seized and made a labor-camp drudge; how, at 28, he worked on higher mathematics at a secret research institute operated by the security police. How, at 36, he became an anonymous exile near the Chinese frontier; how he defeated cancer by a supreme mental and physical effort that seems a kind of miracle. At 41, we see Solzhenitsyn, the provincial schoolteacher, submitting for publication his first manuscript, which was then delivered to the Politburo for scrutiny. Decorated, condemned, exiled, "rehabilitated," acclaimed, censured, Solzhenitsyn struggled, too, to keep alive a marriage battered by years of separation and officially enforced silence. --from the inside front cover.« less