She is "Lara"-Boris Pastcrnak s ioodel

for the unforgettable heroine of Doc-

tor Zhivago. She shared the last four-

teen years of Pasternak s life, and he

immortalized her in the crowning

work of his hrilliant, turbulent career.

Now Olga lvinskaya tells the re-

markable story of their time and their

love together.

In a memoir filled with unprece-

dented insights into the man and his

work, she offers the first detailed ac-

count of the systematic harassment

suffered hy Pasternak and those close

to him at the hands of the Pulssian

bureaucracy. She recounts the much

misunderstood events surrounding his

refusal of the Nobel Prize for litera-

ture in 1958.

Here is the intimate portrait of an

extraordinary romance, which flour-

ished amid the intrigues and repres-

sions of postwar Russia.

When Pasternak met Olga in 1946

she was thirty-four, a widow, working

for the monthly literary journal Novy