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Fantasmagoricheskai͡a istorii͡a druzhby ierusalimskogo malʹchika, rodivshegosi͡a v religioznoĭ semʹe nezadolgo do provozglashenii͡a Gosudarstva Izrailʹ, s vzroslym chudakom-prozhekterom, grezi͡ashchim o spasenii chelovechestva ot goloda silami sozdavaemoĭ im "prodovolʹstvennoĭ armii" i postepenno pogruzhai͡ushchimsi͡a v bezumie. Pochti stolʹ zhe koloritny i drugie druzʹi͡a neobychnogo rebenka: cheta vostorzhennykh poklonnikov avstro-vengerskogo imperatora Frant͡sa Iosifa, staryĭ mogilʹshchik, revnostnye vegany, ubezhdennye ėsperantisty i drugie personazhi. Povestvovanie nachinaetsi͡a i zavershaetsi͡a na afrikanskom beregu Suėt͡skogo kanala, gde liricheskiĭ geroĭ okazyvaetsi͡a srazu posle Okti͡abrʹskoĭ voĭny 1973 goda, izvestnoĭ v Izraile kak Voĭna Sudnogo dni͡a, no osnovnye sobytii͡a romana razvorachivai͡utsi͡a v Ierusalime nachala pi͡atidesi͡atykh. I poskolʹku mnogie si͡uzhetnye linii ukhodi͡at svoimi korni͡ami v otdalennoe proshloe, chitatelʹ poluchaet vozmozhnostʹ okunutʹsi͡a v atmosferu Ierusalima XIX i pervoĭ poloviny XX veka, prikosnuvshisʹ k nekotorym vazhnym uzlam noveĭsheĭ evreĭskoĭ istorii.

A phantasmagoric story of friendship between a Jerusalem boy born into a religious family shortly before the proclamation of the State of Israel, with an adult eccentric-a searchlight, dreaming of saving humanity from hunger by the forces of the "food army" he created and gradually sinking into madness. Almost as colorful are other friends of an unusual child: a couple of enthusiastic fans of the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph, an old gravedigger, zealous vegans, convinced Esperantists and other characters. The narrative begins and ends on the African shore of the Suez Canal, where the lyrical hero finds himself immediately after the October 1973 War, known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War, but the main events of the novel unfold in Jerusalem in the early fifties. And since many storylines have their roots in the distant past, the reader gets the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of Jerusalem of the XIX and the first half of the XX century, touching some important nodes of the modern Jewish history.