Doctor Zhivago

Author: Boris Pasternak

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780099541240
  • : Random House UK
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  • : October 2011
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 35mm
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Description

"From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. anned 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 what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. ichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms, tone, precision, and poetry of Pasternak s original, bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers."

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A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition.

Author description

Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890 and after briefly training as a composer resolved to be a writer. He published a large number of collections of poetry, written under the burden of Soviet Russia's stringent censorship, before publishing his most famous work, Dr Zhivago, in 1958. This novel won him the Nobel Prize for Literature but the USSR's hostility to the West meant he was forced to turn it down. He died in 1960.