After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking worksinterconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred to as binary join Solzhenitsyn s already available fiction as some of the most powerful literature of the twentieth century.
With Soviet and post-Soviety life as their focus, these stories weave and...