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