I know, I know...I'm supposed to be reviewing new books, especially those written by upcoming self-published or independently published authors, but I homeschool my two teenagers, and we're hitting the modern classics this year, so I just re-read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book yesterday.
Amazing.
I hated this book when I read it as a teenager. I didn't remember a single detail from it, so I was shocked at what an incredible book this is to read as an adult. I know so much history now, and so much more about human nature. What seemed bleak and terrible to me as a teenager reached out and grabbed me in the gut this time around. Solzhenitsyn's account of a single day in a Russian prison camp encompasses more about life and the human condition than most novels three times its size.
It does the impossible: shows us that no matter how grim the circumstances are of your existence, the sublime is with us always, in the details of every day.
If you haven't read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, go get it today. And if you have, read it again. You won't be disappointed.
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