Word: rostov
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...called his offence a "baseless political charge," probably incurred by speaking derogatorily of Stalin. In 1953 Stalin died and Solzhenitsyn was released from camp and exiled to East Asia with millions of other political prisoners. Following Krushchev's repudiation of the Stalin regime in 1956 Solzhenitsyn returned home to Rostov and was permitted to reach mathematics at the local grammar school. There he started a writing career which so far has produced four novels, several books of short stories, and a play. He also contracted cancer (the progress of which was arrested), won a Nobel Prize which...
Reduced to essences, the exotic Buendias become immediate-yet mythically compelling like Tolstoy's Rostov family, or the doomed scions of Faulkner's Sartoris. But One Hundred Years is more than a family chronicle. The author is really at work on an imaginative spiritual history of any or all Latin American communities. In the process, he fondly reveals more about the Latin soul than all Oscar Lewis' selective eavesdropping does...