The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
by:
Peter Finn (author)
Petra Couvée (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846557125 (1846557127)
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Politics,
Russia,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage
I got this out of the library based on an LA Times review, I think, and expected a caper thriller about the CIA publishing and distributing Zhivago in the USSR. That's the selling point, but it has very little to do with this book. As a thorough history of the writing and publication of Zhivago, a...
bookshelves: radio-4, summer-2014, biography, nonfiction, poetry, fradio, published-2014, slavic, politics, history, books-about-books-and-book-shops, spies Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 20 to July 11, 2014 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/progra...