About the book: 2006 / For the first time, the most famous novel by the leading Israeli prose writer Meir Shalev is published in Russian. This book is about that generation of Jews who came from Russia to Palestine and turned its sands and swamps into a prosperous country, Eretz Israel. In a masterfully constructed narrative, tragedy is intertwined with irony, Russian love with bitter Jewish humor, poetic myth with the brutal truth of hard work. The story of the inhabitants of a small valley, reclaimed from nature, contains a huge world of passion and melancholy, hopes and suffering, fidelity and pain. “Russian Novel” is Shalev’s third work published by the Text publishing house, after “The Bible Today” (2000) and “ In his house in the desert…» (2005).