The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I had never heard the story behind the CIA's use of the banned novel by Boris Pasternak--Dr. Zhivago--to undermine the Soviet system. This piece of historical fiction centers around these escapades, giving insight into Pasternak's life & struggles--including the devastating results of his novel being published outside the Soviet Union, first by the Italians. What a charade from the Soviet Writers' Union (those are charades in any totalitarian system) as it voted to oust Pasternak, creating lies out of thin air to defame him (for exposing their charade of a system). Read the first half of this by ebook--borrowed from the library--then listened to the second half by audiobook on my iPhone, after finally getting it from the long library hold.


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