Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

"How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed."

Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, is caught in the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. His life is torn between his gentle wife Tonya and the passionate Lara, the muse who inspires his poetry. As the world around him descends into chaos and brutality, Zhivago struggles to preserve his humanity and his artistic independence.

Boris Pasternak's epic novel was banned in the Soviet Union for its refusal to conform to socialist realism. It is a lyrical, heartbreaking celebration of the individual spirit and the power of love against the crushing machinery of history.