Lara av Anna Pasternak

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¿Riveting, tragic tale¿ New Yorker¿Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion¿ Financial TimesThe heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya ¿ the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago.¿Doctor Zhivago¿ has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say ¿Lara exists, go and meet her¿, directing his visitors to the love of his life and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. They met in 1946 at the literary journal where she worked. Their relationship would last for the remainder of their lives.Olga paid an enormous price for loving ¿her Boria¿. She became a pawn in a highly political game and was imprisoned twice in Siberian labour camps because of her association with him and his controversial work. Her story is one of unimaginable courage, loyalty, suffering, tragedy, drama and loss.Drawing on both archival and family sources,