To mark the fiftieth anniversary of its appearance, we undertook the translation of this novel from the edition set by the author's son. The story of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and Lara, the love of his life, cobra new shades and transmits first full force of the original manuscript. It is the story of a desperate love, with a turbulent time as a backdrop: the terrible years that changed the course of history of the Russian people. The new translation reveals a work full of life dazzles the poetic spirit of his prose, which also resonate echoes of Tolstoy and Gogol. Boris Pasternak's life was not easy, but his great novel is a hymn to the goodness and vital principle, a demonstration that the purity of feelings survives to any adversity