About the book: 2006 / Each short story included in the collection is a novel compressed to several pages. How capacious is Hebrew, how compressed are peace and war, history and religion, life and death, love and hate, on the seemingly tiny territory of Israel; Misha Landburg's texts are so rich. Everyone who comes to Israel is amazed by how the climate, nature, and landscape of the country changes over the course of a few kilometers. Likewise, the reader of the short stories, both in Hebrew and in the author’s translation into Russian, is captivated by the sharp, but so natural turns of the plot. The book by the famous Israeli writer Mikhail Landburg includes short stories written by the master’s pen and dedicated to eternal themes: love, fidelity, loneliness, life, death…