About the book: 2015 / In his new book, Alexander Stesin returns to Africa - this time to Egypt and Ethiopia. During an unpredictable trip with a Hindu friend, he constantly discovers sudden kinship and the extreme range of cultures, and the names of writers, famous and little-known, are constantly used as passwords. From Pushkin to Gumilyov, from Bealyu Girma to Danyachou Worku. It was Warku’s stories that inspired Stesin to embark on an unusual journey – a “travel with translation”, and in this book, along with a travelogue, the reader will find translated stories by one of the best African writers of the 20th century.