From the very first pages of Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s new novel, the reader is bombarded with a stream of scattered testimonies: letters, documents, diaries…
From the very first pages of Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s new novel, the reader is bombarded with a stream of disparate testimonies: letters, documents, diaries… However, the chaos gradually takes shape, evolving into a polyphonic narrative about the fate of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who saved hundreds of ghetto prisoners during the war, and later became a Catholic monk. The meaning of brother Daniel’s life is peace and harmony in the Holy Land. The story of an eccentric righteous man, based on real facts, becomes for Ulitskaya a metaphor for the spiritual quest of any person who is ready to give up many momentary joys for the sake of a higher goal.
EKSMO, 528 p.