In the First Circle

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.