The Week In Books: Writer-heroes who resist the red star ...
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A couple of months ago, I found myself thinking a lot about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, and returning to the great books that had struck me like a tornado as an enraptured teenage reader. The reason was straightforward. Twice this spring ? once for this newspaper, and once for an event at Asia House in London ? I interviewed the dissident Chinese novelist Ma Jian. Both in his ...

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