Даниэль Штайн, переводчик

A wise old woman who dwells among books and silence. An embittered communist living out her life in an Israeli orphanage. A forty-year-old American woman - supposedly prosperous, but crippled by memories. A German woman working in a Christian community near Haifa to atone for the guilt of her people. A Catholic nun, now an Orthodox priest, who found herself in the Holy Land. An Israeli radical, a disturbed teenager, a sad Christian Arab, a specialist in Jewish studies. Big politics and private life. USA, Israel, Poland, Lithuania, Russia. And in the center of this disparate and yet desperately united world is a Jew, a former "mole" in the Gestapo, a former partisan, now a Catholic priest. A man whose life explains how people are still alive, how they did not drown themselves in hatred and pain. Lyudmila Ulitskaya's new novel is about the wanderings of the spirit in the darkness of the world, about how everyone seeks and finds light around and in themselves. About Daniel Rufeisen, a man whose life no literature can compete with. About a man who until the last day remained a merciful soldier.