{"product_id":"between-two-millstones-book-1-sketches-of-exile-1974-1978-paperback","title":"Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Constantine\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Mahoney\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Millstones, Book 1\u003c\/i\u003e, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Oak and the Calf\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Millstones\u003c\/i\u003e begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result of the publication in the West of \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time and was considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists and reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Two Millstones\u003c\/i\u003e contains vivid descriptions of Solzhenitsyn's journeys to various European countries and North American locales, where he and his wife Natalia (\"Alya\") searched for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating descriptions of one-on-one meetings with prominent individuals, detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard University commencement, comments on his television appearances, accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents who mishandled the Western editions of his books, and the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also passages on Solzhenitsyn's family and their property in Cavendish, Vermont, whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where he could finally work undisturbed on his ten-volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper education for the writer's three sons, their desire to return one day to their home in Russia, and descriptions of his extraordinary wife, editor, literary advisor, and director of the Russian Social Fund, Alya, who successfully arranged, at great peril to herself and to her family, to smuggle Solzhenitsyn's invaluable archive out of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Two Millstones\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary event of the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of Solzhenitsyn's separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel Prize laureate in literature, was a Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953. His story \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) made him famous, and \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) further unmasked Communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including \u003ci\u003eIn the First Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Oak and the Calf\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Constantine is a literary translator and editor, and the director of the Literary Translation Program at the University of Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel J. Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 7.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382554181810,"sku":"9780268105020","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a8271dc7c9a0be9d075c58d559920040.webp?v=1777838131","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/between-two-millstones-book-1-sketches-of-exile-1974-1978-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}