The secrets we kept /
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world....
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the typists
- East, 1949-1950. The muse
- West, Fall 1956. The applicant ; The typists ; The swallow
- East, 1950-1955. The rehabilitated woman ; The cloud dweller ; The emissary
- West, February-Fall 1957. The carrier ; The typists
- East, 1955-1956. The agent ; The emissary
- West, Fall 1957-August 1958. The carrier ; The swallow ; The company man ; The swallow ; The carrier ; The typists ; The carrier
- East, May 1958. The mother
- West, August-September 1958. The typists ; The nun
- East, September-October 1958. The prizewinner
- West, October-December 1958. The informant
- East, October-December 1958. The emissary
- West, December 1958. The defector
- East, January 1959. The postmistress
- West, Summer 1959. The student
- East, 1960-1961. The almost widow
- Epilogue : the typists.