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Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak,

John Bayley (Introduction),

Max Hayward (Translator),

Manya Harari (Translator)

Start date: February 1, 2021

Finish date: March 31, 2021

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Mar 26, 2009 Chrissie rated it liked it

Shelves: love, hf, classics, 2015-read, russia, soviet-union

This is a reread for me. Will I still think it worth five stars?

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On completion after the second reading:

I ended up really liking some aspects of the book, but not all. This book makes you feel history and what it is to be human. It isn't so much a history book as a way of living through / experiencing life in Russia in the first half of the 20th Century in Moscow and in the Urals. What it was like to live through the Revolution and the subsequent civil war are no ...more

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Nov 06, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-and-movie, historical-fiction, russian-fiction, fiction-20th-century, hf-asia

This is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.

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Jan 14, 2010 Janice rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I loved this book. It was a slow read for me, not a perfect novel and I sometimes wondered whether the problems I had were more to do with translation (even though this is the brand new and masterful attempt making this novel available to those of us who sadly do not speak Russian). But I cannot believe that there is any better attempt than Pasternak's to bring to light the huge scope of the Russian Revolution and its effect on its people. I knew of the wonderful love affair of Zhivago and Lara ...more

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