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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

A life caught in revolution

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A life caught in revolution

Doctor Zhivago connects the upheaval of the Russian Revolution with the private life of Yuri Zhivago, a poet and physician. As he takes his family from Moscow toward the Ural Mountains, the conflict between the Whites and Reds reshapes the world around them. His relationship with Lara brings the novel’s intimate thread into close contact with the period’s turmoil. The book’s scope joins personal love and family life to political conflict, placing one man’s experience within a moment of sweeping change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in classic fiction set during the Russian Revolution.
  • Readers drawn to novels that connect personal relationships with political upheaval.
  • Readers interested in a story centered on a poet-physician and his family.

Themes

Revolution and political conflictLove amid upheavalFamily and displacementArt and medicine

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Book overview

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.

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