The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to familiar places and persons in Moscow and Leningrad, the hero settles in a southern provincial town where he briefly establishes a new life with a war widow. Ivan Grigoryevich eventually returns to his boyhood home on the Black Sea, where he is finally able to come to terms with the inhumanity of the new Russian regime.
- ISBN10 0002712482
- ISBN13 9780002712484
- Publish Date 7 March 1988 (first published 22 February 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Harvill Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English