Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)

First book I read from Ayn Rand recommended by a Russian friend. Ayn Rand is a Jewish Russian writer who escaped to United States during the communist period. She is founder of the school of objectivism promoted by Leonard Peikoff. Atlas Shrugged is an extensive book, more than one thousand pages. It is a novel and it is a really good book. I read the Portuguese version and the translation was very well done because the text was fluid. The story is interesting and the author imbeds in the story her philosophical and political points of view. The romantic story involving the main character of the book reflects much of the author’s position on Individualism and Objectivism. There is a kind of mystery in the book that held my attention until the end of the book. In Portuguese the book’s title was translated according to this mystery around “who is John Galt” (Quem é John Galt, 1987).