Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

This sounds very intriguing! I haven‘t read Dr Zhivago or seen the movie, but I still want to read this. #booksaboutbooks

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gracemom

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

2nd book of 2018. Can‘t wait!

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Amandajoy

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Had a date with a fantastic man today. He took me to a used book store that I‘d never been to. I found this one, and it looks pretty intriguing. All in all, I‘d say it was a good day off.

ralexist That is excellent date :) 6y

LeahBergen You better marry him. 😂😂 6y

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shawnmooney

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

bailed

Another nonfiction book that had a magazine article's worth of interestingness. The part about Pasternak's life was somewhat interesting, but the 'Cold War battle' stuff was mind-numbingly boring. Bailed just before the halfway point. Oh and it didn't help that the audio was narrated by Simon Vance, whose affected, dulcet voice and accent suit novels about Tudor England to a T but jarred and annoyed here.

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shawnmooney

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

#QuoteOfTheDay

quirkyreader Find a copy of the letters that they wrote to Rilke and be amazed at the passion poured out in them. 7y

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shawnmooney

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Just starting this on audio. In the opening chapter, much is made of how handsome Pasternak was. I would have to agree. 😛

shawnmooney @jeff When you have a moment please add the co-author: Petra Couvée. Also the subtitle: "The Kremlin, the CIA, and The Battle Over a Forbidden Book." Thanks! (edited) 7y

saresmoore Oh my. He is dreamy! 7y

quirkyreader Some of his photos don't do him justice though. Is this book about his affair with Olga or is it fiction? 7y

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shawnmooney @quirkyreader It is nonfiction about the Cold War battle over the novel. 7y

quirkyreader I just read a "brief lives" type bio about Pasternak. It's on on Listy, but goodreads has it. I think it was by Robert Payne. Fun fact: for one of my Russian studies classes I did a whole project around Dr. Z and how it was suppressed. I was even able to get my hands on a copy of "Pravda" and read articles about the suppression. 7y

quirkyreader I just read a "brief lives" type bio about Pasternak. It's not on Listy, but goodreads has it. I think it was by Robert Payne. Fun fact: for one of my Russian studies classes I did a whole project around Dr. Z and how it was suppressed. I was even able to get my hands on a copy of "Pravda" and read articles about the suppression. 7y

LeahBergen Yep. 😉 7y

jeff @shawnmooney Done! (Petra was actually already listed as a co-author) 7y

shawnmooney @jeff Thanks! (and you were right!) 7y

shawnmooney @quirkyreader I am really enjoying this book so far! 7y

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Keegz63

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Listening so my eyes can recover from 24in48, and my hands are free to fold my neglected laundry 🙄

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akfreeborn

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book | Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago was so daring to create during Soviet times but the story of how it got published and the toll it took on its author is a story in and of itself. #banned books #somethingforseptember #septphotochallenge

shawnmooney This sounds amazing! It's one of the great regrets of my life that I came so very very close to having tea with Pasternak's sister when I visited Oxford, but no cigar; she was a friend of the woman I was visiting there, but that particular weekend in around 1987 Ann Pasternak Slater was ill so the tea party didn't happen. She died two years later. 8y

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