![]() The story moves easily from East to West and from the lives of the women who supported and inspired Pasternak to the women who helped get his banned book into Soviet readers’ hands.” Zhivago as a weapon against the Soviet system. “A fast-paced and fascinating novel about the women behind the CIA’s plan to use Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Aggie Zivaljevic, Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List After I finished reading The Secrets We Kept, I pressed the book against my chest, as if I could hear the lovers’ hearts still beating.” ![]() Lara Prescott brilliantly portrays how a timeless novel like Doctor Zhivago can change course of history. ![]() ![]() Second, two American women typists working for CIA and their forbidden love story in the midst of the Cold War and the witch hunt against homosexuals. ![]() First, a divine and doomed love affair between Russian author Boris Pasternak and his muse and secretary, Olga Ivinskaya, a woman immortalized in Pasternak’s epic novel Doctor Zhivago, which was banned in Russia for more than 30 years. “This perfect historical novel is made of the most alluring ingredients. ![]()
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