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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prescott, Lara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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.