Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel "Daniel Stein, Translator" is a literary sensation of the early 21st century. Huge print runs, loud controversies, and finally the Big Book Award.Daniel Stein (the hero has a specific prototype) saves about three hundred ghetto prisoners at the risk of his life during the Second World War. At the end of the war, having been baptized, he became a Catholic priest and left for Israel, where he continues to serve people – this is how he understands his mission ... A new edition of the cult novel in paperback.First published in 2006, this book has become a long-seller and has been steadily selling for many years.The form of the novel chosen by Ulitskaya, which is intermediate between documentary and fiction, made it possible to make it "polyphonic, polyphonic, multilingual" (Svetlana Shishkova-Shipunova, "The Banner").