About the book: 2007 / New book by the legendary Boris Stein - military sailor, poet, docker, journalist, novelist, editor, elephant trainer, taxi driver , secretary of the Writers' Union, bookseller, publisher, etc., etc., etc. - and now a new citizen of Israel. And judging by the sparkling lyrical skill with which the author recalls the lieutenant’s youth, the next turn of the writer’s long and worthy life took him not to a quiet harbor, but to the sunny beaches of Ashkelon, where everything is just beginning...