1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry vo
ices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel
called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize.
There is uproar.
The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that h
e refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this boo
k - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's ow
n experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city, a story of y
outhful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the writte
n word.
