num_pages: 640
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: Russian
title: Доктор Живаго
titlecomplete: Доктор Живаго
characters: Misha Gordon, Markel Shchapov, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Kuprik Tiverzin, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Kologrivov, Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Nadya Kologrigova, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Nicky Dudorov
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, Classics, Historical, War, Russia, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 94859
places: Moscow, Soviet Union, Russia, Siberia, Yuriatin
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Эксмо