- Fiction, History, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general
***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. ***The book quickly became an international best-seller.***
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- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 559
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Zemlia i Fabrika, Feng huang chu ban she
- Editions
- 176
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, slo, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9785699167449
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“On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing.”
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
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