Halfway back. Markish D.

The Russian -speaking Israeli writer David Markish is the author of dozens of books in which Russian and Jewish history and culture are inextricably intertwined. The new collection of stories by David Markish “Halfway ago and other stories” are ten different, amazing stories of the outcome, from “where it was born” to a new life and its origins. The collection includes five new stories written in 2020–2021, and five stories created in the early 1990s. Both parts of the collection - “are old” and “new” - are weaving different fates, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people, through the years that go home to their home, to the promised land. This book of the outstanding modern writer David Markish is for everyone who loves real great literature, who like the unity of deep meaning, subtle lyrics and good humor.