Author:Boris Pasternak
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.
The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution
—— V.S. PritchettOne of the great events in man's literary and moral history
—— Edmund WilsonBelongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged
—— Frank Kermode , SpectatorNot since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated
—— Isaiah Berlin , Sunday TimesA dazzling hall of mirrors... Ferociously ambitious... Illumined by a fizzing passion for the recondite
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—— Sunday Telegraph[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century
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