Russian novel

Meir Shalev (b. 1948) was recognized as the most beloved writer of Israel - this is how the survey of ten thousand readers showed. Critics compare his works with the prose of Pavich and Marquez, and Shalev himself calls his teachers Nabokov and Melville.
It was the "Russian Roman" who brought the writer to the leaders of Israeli prose and provided him with world glory. This is a tragic and at the same time ironically mocking epic, the story of people who came to Palestine from Russia and turned the swamps and sands of the new homeland into flowering land.
In the masterfully built narrative, the tragedy is intertwined with irony, Russian love with a bitter Jewish humor, a poetic myth with a rough truth of hard work. The history of the inhabitants of a small valley, conquered from nature, holds a huge world of passion and longing, hopes and suffering, fidelity and pain.
A sophisticated plot, subtle psychologism and truly biblical power - such is the "Russian novel" Meir Shallev