About the book: 2017 / “The Searcher” is one of the novels by the finalist of the Big Book, Russian Booker and NOSE awards Margarita Khemlin (1960–2015) , not published during the author’s lifetime. The novel takes place from 1917 to 1924, the space is a Ukrainian province, almost indistinguishable from Jewish towns. This outline is colored with strikingly authentic signs of the era and masterly linguistic discoveries. The plot, to a first approximation, is adventurous. The boys go in search of treasure. Here, as always with Margarita Khemlin, the narrative changes its course in a puzzling way - and with it the fates of the people inhabiting the novel. According to Lazar Goikhman, the main character, who tells everything, even the most shameful and terrible, “in every vital moment of a person there is something that in the future can become a question, even an incomprehensible mystery.” Listen to Lazar, he's right.