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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
More expensive than most deals I post here, but Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is $4.99 at Amazon. It's usually $14.99 and $4.99 is the cheapest it's been.
This is a new translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky who have been on a tear translating Russian classics. |
FYI, the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation of
Zhivago is very controversial. There are numerous criticisms about it online. See, for example,
this article written by Pasternak's niece, or
this blog post.