A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition.
Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890 and after briefly training as a composer resolved to be a writer. He published a large number of collections of poetry, written under the burden of Soviet Russia's stringent censorship, before publishing his most famous work, Dr Zhivago, in 1958. This novel won him the Nobel Prize for Literature but the USSR's hostility to the West meant he was forced to turn it down. He died in 1960.
The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the
Revolution
*V.S. Pritchett*
The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent
translators
*New York Review of Books*
One of the great events in man's literary and moral history
*Edmund Wilson*
Belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are
ultimately judged
*Spectator*
Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously
and directly communicated
*Sunday Times*
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