num_pages: 500
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: Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Nicky Dudorov, Kuprik Tiverzin, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Nadya Kologrigova, Kologrivov, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Markel Shchapov, Misha Gordon, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago
genres: Russia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, War, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 94851
places: Russia, Soviet Union, Siberia, Yuriatin, Moscow
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Bantam