From the acclaimed translators of War & Peace" & " Anna Karenina" a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 " Doctor Zhivago" is the epic story of the life & 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 Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites & the Reds & in love with the tender & beautiful nurse Lara. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms tone precision & poetry of Pasternak's original bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers."