Set amidst Russia's revolutionary upheaval in the early years of the century, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece tells of Zhivago, doctor and poet, as he endeavours to come to terms with the momentous changes overtaking society. Soon the forces of revolution bring civil war, brutality and chaos. There is famine in Moscow, and Zhivago takes his wife Tonia and their child on an epic train journey to Siberia, to find shelter in a remote country house; yet even here they are unable to escape the turmoil. And haunting Zhivago always is his passion for the beautiful Lara.
Both as a study of a country struggling to remake itself and as a moving love-story, 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century.
