A Novel by Mikhail Lipskerov with Illustrations by Irina Litmanovich
Published by Ripol Classic, Moscow, 2015
“To help you picture it more clearly (don’t forget to put a pot on the stove and turn on the gas): imagine mentally mixing the animated film Last Year’s Snow Was Falling with Isaac Babel’s Odessa Stories. To thicken the stew, toss in some prison slang and finish the dish off with a generous sprinkle of biblical parables — all humorously woven into the narrative. (Turn off the gas — it’s ready!) That’s the kind of dish old man Lipskerov has cooked up.”
(Roman Bogoslovsky, Sv.Pressa, 2015)
The standoff between Jews and Christians
The Imam’s Prayer
Cossacks
Church service
Noah’s Ark
Shlomo and Wanda
Ranetki apples
The author of the novel at the computer
