Царь, царевич, сапожник, бунтарь

"T͡Sarʹ, t͡sarevich, sapozhnik, buntarʹ" - roman o vzroslenii dushi, ishchushcheĭ svet sredi teneĭ istorii. Girsh, malʹchik iz bednoĭ Birzuly, rano ostavshiĭsi͡a sirotoĭ, otkryvaet mir i mechtaet vyrvatʹsi͡a iz mestechka, gde eiu tesno. Ego putʹ vedet v Moskvu - gorod burli͡ashchikh ideĭ, nadezhd i krovi, gde rushitsi͡a staryĭ pori͡adok i rozhdaetsi͡a novyĭ, ne menee zhestokiĭ. Moskva nachala KhKh veka vstrechaet i͡unoshu trevogoĭ peremen i soblaznom ideĭ. Opyt buntari͡a i svideteli͡a nasilii͡a otrezvli͡aet Girsha. Sredi shumnykh ulit͡s i revoli͡ut͡sionnoĭ sumi͡atit͡sy on pytaetsi͡a sokhranitʹ glavnoe - sposobnostʹ dumatʹ, somnevatʹsi͡a i li͡ubitʹ. Ėto netrivialʹnai͡a proza, sochetai͡ushchai͡a v sebe paradoksalʹnostʹ myshlenii͡a so stremleniem glubzhe postichʹ prirodu dukhovnosti svoego naroda. Dina Rubina.

"Tsar, Tsarevich, Shoemaker, rebel" is a novel about the growing up of a soul searching for light among the shadows of history. Girsh, a boy from poor Birzula, orphaned at an early age, discovers the world and dreams of escaping from a place where life is cramped. His path leads to Moscow, a city of seething ideas, hopes and blood, where the old order is crumbling and a new, no less cruel one is being born. Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth century greets the young man with the anxiety of change and the temptation of ideas. The experience of being a rebel and witnessing violence is sobering for Hirsch. Amidst the noisy streets and the revolutionary turmoil, he tries to preserve the main thing — the ability to think, doubt and love. This is a non-trivial prose that combines the paradoxical thinking with the desire to better understand the nature of the spirituality of his people. Dean Rubin.