I just discovered on Amazon there's an updated edition of The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn. Apparently, the Harper (1968) and Bantam (1969) editions were edited so the book would make it out of the Soviet Union when the author was in exile in Kazakhstan.
This puts me in a moral dilemma. Do I continue to read the edited version? Or purchase the latest edition? If you have never read anything by Solzhenitsyn, you should probably begin with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Short and powerful. I'll never forget Alyosha the Baptist in the prison camp.
Even so, The First Circle is a powerful book so far, a study in freedom, fear, and love.
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