Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a 20th-century Russian soviet-russian author and dissident. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Read more on Wikipedia →

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