DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Boris Pasternak (trans. Max Hayward and Manya Harai, Vintage, 2002 (first published Collins and Harvill, 1958)) ISBN: 9780099448426
Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago has been lauded for almost 60 years as one of the greatest love stories of all time. An epic set during the Russian Revolution, it saw its author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and has been adapted several times for the screen in both Russian and English. With the weight of its renown, but without much notion of what the story was actually about, I looked forward to falling in love with this book. Unfortunately, I didn’t.