HarperPerennial has pulled off a literary coup: it will publish the first English language edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle. The controversial novel was published 40 years ago in heavily edited versions because it detailed the life at a Soviet prison camp. The work received vast critical praise.

“‘The First Circle’ is one of the most important novels of the 20th century and we are thrilled to be making this masterpiece available in its full glory,” Carrie Kania, senior vice president and publisher of Harper Perennial, said Tuesday in a statement.



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Perennial, a paperback imprint of HarperCollins, will release The First Circle in 2009. The 89-year-old Solzhenitsyn, winner in 1970 of the Nobel Prize for literature, returned to his homeland in the 1990s after two decades in exile and now lives in Moscow.

Finally Solzhenitsyn’s work will be available in an accessible, uncut English edition. It is long overdue.



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