Delivered exactly what it promised, a Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. I initially was supposed to read Solzhenitsyn's other tome of a novel calledDelivered exactly what it promised, a Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. I initially was supposed to read Solzhenitsyn's other tome of a novel called Gulag Archipelago, but multiple reviews online even videos on youtube kept suggesting to at least give this a try first as it's a "fiction" but really non-fiction account of what happened (for a day at least) in a life of a prisoner in the Gulag. Really good book, there's not much to unravel and analyze. It's what it is on face value, the life of a prisoner back then. Short but delivered what it was supposed to. I will be reading more about the Gulag in the next few months ...more