num_pages: 18
description: First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the 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, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak's original--his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone--in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.
language: English
title: Doctor Zhivago
titlecomplete: Doctor Zhivago
characters: Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Misha Gordon, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Kologrivov, Nicky Dudorov, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Markel Shchapov, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Nadya Kologrigova, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Kuprik Tiverzin, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova
genres: Historical, War, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Russia, Romance, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 94893
places: Siberia, Soviet Union, Yuriatin, Russia, Moscow
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Chivers Audio Books/Sterling