Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, Revised and Updated Edition

Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander

Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's book provides profound

insight into a towering literary and political figure.

From his pro-Communist youth to his imprisonment in

the Gulags, his exile in America to his return to Russia, this

is the story of a man who struggled with the most weighty

questions of humanity. When a person has suffered the most

terrible physical and emotional torture, what becomes of his

spirit? Can politics and economics truly provide the answers

a modern society needs? If peace and justice are never fully

attained, what hope is there for the future?

Arguably one of the most significant writers of the twentieth

century, Solzhenitsyn, both before and after the fall of

Communism, spoke out against the Russian regime. His faith

deeply informed his literary approach and response to the

excesses of modern materialism. On the spiritual, cultural,

and socio-political level, his writings have much to teach the

world.

This biography contains previously unpublished prose

poems written by Solzhenitsyn after his return to Russia, and

a gallery of rare photographs.

"Pearce has grasped with great insight the spiritual core

of Solzhenitsyn's achievement as a writer, and indeed as a

prophet to Russia and the world. He writes with warm sympathy

for Russia's greatest literary voice in modern times."

--David Aikman, Author, Great Souls: Six Who Changed the

Century

"Joseph Pearce is best on what matters most about

Solzhenitsyn: the centrality of the author's Christian faith. It

is no wonder that Solzhenitsyn chose to . . . provide Pearce

with fresh information. Newcomers to Solzhenitsyn should

start with this biography. They will find here a highly readable

rendition of one of the most sensational lives of the

twentieth century."

--Edward E. Ericson Jr., Author, Solzhenitsyn and the Modern

World