84×108/32, hard cover, 480 pp., 2006
ISBN 5-86793-469-1

It is as difficult to define the genre of this novel as it is to retell its contents. All that can be said is that the events described in the novel begin in the first day of the nineteenth century and end on the last day of the twentieth. The historical chapters of the book are interspersed with the narration of the hero’s story. This hero is born in Russia, lives in Lithuania and Poland, fights in all of Israel’s wars, travels round the world and eventually gets lost in the corridors of heaven. The hero’s ancestors also participate in the story. Both sides of the family come from a Jewish settlement, but their later fates diverge greatly. The mother’s side become well-known Russian lawyers, Lithuanian ministers and new inhabitants of Siberia, before finding haven on the kibbutz of Mihmoret on the shores of the Mediterranean. The father’s side are soldiers who settle in Siberia as tradesmen after twenty years of service, then become engineers, atomic specialists, finally making their way to the holy land, where they struggle to grant Israel the ultimate weapon. All this takes place against the backdrop of Russian history, where the opulent dramatis persona includes Catherine the Great, Nicholas the Second, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev, Yeltsin and other politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, gendarmes, scientists, lawyers, chekists and crooks.
As for the author, although he tells the story in the first person, he has no relation to the events he describes and asks the reader not to associate him with any of the real or fictional heroes of the book.

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