About the book: 2023 / Volume III includes the novel "Jacob's Ladder". The novel consists of stories and diary entries about events full of drama, adventure and difficult overcomings in the life of a shepherd boy, a young man - a laborer, a loader, a fireman, a mason, a student - and a mature husband - a teacher, leader and scientist. This is a novel about love that unites people, about the courage of those who love. When you are very young, it is easy to believe in the immortality of the soul and in your own limitless possibilities. If something doesn’t work out today, it doesn’t matter: tomorrow it will work out. Well, if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. Sooner or later, it will still work out: after all, you are stubborn and wiry. If you love, you can overcome everything, the author believes. And you have life ahead of you. Your whole life! Long and, it must be, interesting. And when the evening of your life comes and the circle of your affairs sharply narrows, the energy of love accumulated in your young and mature years still nourishes you and supports your weakening body.