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: Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Nicky Dudorov, Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Kologrivov, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Nadya Kologrigova, Misha Gordon, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Kuprik Tiverzin, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Markel Shchapov
genres: Classics, Historical, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 94855
places: Soviet Union, Yuriatin, Russia, Moscow, Siberia
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Signet