Elena’s Reviews > Doctor Zhivago > Status Update

I read this early rushed translation long ago as a schoolgirl, now I'm actually reading the translation by Boris Pasternak's nephew, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, who truly understands the subtext of the novel, the musicality of the language and the visual world it inhabits...pure joy -- but not a cheap one, the edition is one of the collectors' items and pricey, but a delight to hold and read slowly....