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Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Summary

TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARI

Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara.

Reviews

  • The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution
    V.S. Pritchett

About the author

Boris Pasternak

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