Doctor Zhivago

side by side series of the cover of The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

“The CIA had a huge role in shaping mid-century literature”: An Interview with Lara Prescott

Lara Prescott’s thrilling debut novel focuses on the CIA’s efforts to smuggle and distribute Boris Pasternak’s legendary novel. But it takes a subversive approach, telling the story from the perspective of the unsung women, at both the CIA and in Soviet Russia, who made Pasternak’s legend possible.