How the Steel was tempered - Nikolai Ostrovski

[Roy]

Some weeks ago I finished reading this book, and I'd like to recommend it to the forum.

 

I'm so bad making reviews. So I add one I found in Amazon:

 

"How the Steel Was Tempered is Nikolai Ostrovsky's epic semi-autobiographical novel, the only book he ever completed before his life was cut tragically short by illness at the age of 32 in 1936. Ostrovsky was a teenage soldier in the Red Army during the Civil War, before continuing his work in the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) and frequently appeared in Soviet magazines and on radio.

Through its hero, Pavel Korchagin who begins the story as a boy slaving in the kitchens of a railway station restaurant in wartorn Tsarist Ukraine, the book follows not just Korchagin's developing life but also the development of socialism from the ashes of the First World War, through the triumph of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution to the launch of the Soviet Union's planned economy at the end of the 1920s."

 

I loved this book since its first pages, this is one of the books that inspires self-improvement. Has anybody read it?