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Serpentine
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781950319923
Publisher: M-Graphics Pub.
Published: Oct 31 2023
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian
...It is rare to find a book that can become a real home - a home of good acquaintances, where you are always welcome, where they will sit down at the table without listening to objections, where they will tell you many stories and gladly listen to yours.
Mikhail Goncharok's book is exactly one of those. In a couple of dozen pages his world will become yours too - a world where Soviet soldiers languishing in sexual exhaustion and Hasidim dancing before death, angels, anarchists and the highest spiritual grade alcoholics, noisy children of the Prophet and no less emotional children of Israel, Russians, Ukrainians, Ethiopians, aristocrats of blood and many, many other characters get along perfectly.
And the change of countries, epochs, the wonderful kaleidoscope of faces will not make you dizzy, because this motley, this brightness comes not only from the exuberant colors of the Sinai tapestry, in which the most different threads have been intertwined for several millennia... This is simply how our universe looks like for someone who can and loves to see, remember and tell....
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