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Lara audiobook
- By: Anna Pasternak
- Narrator: Antonia Beamish
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Editors, Journalists
- Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 24, 2017
- Language: English
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Lara Audiobook Summary
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya–the true tragedy behind the timeless classic.
When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak–whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet–he persecuted Boris’s mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris’s affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga’s role in Boris’s writing process. Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. When Olga was released from the gulags, she assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her but, trapped by his family’s expectations and his own weak will, he never did.
Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak explores this hidden act of moral compromise by her great-uncle, and restores to history the passionate affair that inspired and animated Doctor Zhivago. Devastated that Olga suffered on his behalf and frustrated that he could not match her loyalty to him, Boris instead channeled his thwarted passion for Olga into the love story in Doctor Zhivago.
Filled with the rich detail of Boris’s secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, and casts a new light on the legacy of Doctor Zhivago.
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Lara Audiobook Narrator
Antonia Beamish is the narrator of Lara audiobook that was written by Anna Pasternak
Anna Pasternak is an author, columnist, and journalist. She writes regularly for Sunday Times Style, Conde Nast Traveler, and Harper’s Bazaar, and she is the author of three previous books. She lives in Oxfordshire, England, with her husband and daughter.
About the Author(s) of Lara
Anna Pasternak is the author of Lara
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Lara Full Details
| Narrator | Antonia Beamish |
| Length | 11 hours 49 minutes |
| Author | Anna Pasternak |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | January 24, 2017 |
| ISBN | 9780062571618 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Lara is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Editors, Journalists
Additional info
The publisher of the Lara is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062571618.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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