num_pages: 510
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: Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Misha Gordon, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Nicky Dudorov, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Nadya Kologrigova, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Markel Shchapov, Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Kologrivov, Kuprik Tiverzin, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Russia, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 94855
places: Yuriatin, Siberia, Russia, Moscow, Soviet Union
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Ballantine Books