A Russian poet, physician and philosopher, Dr. Zhivago finds his life torn by his love for a revolutionary’s wife and by the war. He feels personal pain for the atrocities of the Bolsheviks, showcasing his pain through his poems. He struggles under the paranoia and claustrophobia rampant at the
A Russian poet, physician and philosopher, Dr. Zhivago finds his life torn by his love for a revolutionary’s wife and by the war. He feels personal pain for the atrocities of the Bolsheviks, showcasing his pain through his poems. He struggles under the paranoia and claustrophobia rampant at the time, and under his feelings for Lara. Written under circumstances similar to those it portrays, this novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature for Pasternak, who was forced to decline it under threat to his own life from the totalitarian Stalin regime.
Product Features:- Genre: Historical
- Author: Boris Pasternak
- Target Group: Adults
- Format: Paperback
- Type: Contemporary
- Book Language: English
- Book Origin: United Kingdom
- Publisher: Rhuk
- Publication Year: 2002
- ISBN: 9780099448426
- Edition: First
- Number of Pages: 512
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm
- Product Weight: 0.33 kg