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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.



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The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution -- V.S. Pritchett
One of the great events in man's literary and moral history -- Edmund Wilson
Belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged -- Frank Kermode * Spectator *
Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated -- Isaiah Berlin * Sunday Times *

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    A Paperback / softback by Boris Pasternak

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 05/09/2002
      ISBN13: 9780099448426, 978-0099448426
      ISBN10: 99448424
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution -- V.S. Pritchett
      One of the great events in man's literary and moral history -- Edmund Wilson
      Belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged -- Frank Kermode * Spectator *
      Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated -- Isaiah Berlin * Sunday Times *

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