“Yes or no?” - there were only three words on the note tied to the leg of a carrier pigeon that fell on the balcony, but the chain of events that followed this episode unfolded into a scorching love story carried through two generations. “The Dove and the Boy” is a new meeting of Russian readers with the work of the wonderful Israeli writer Meir Shalev, already familiar to them from the novels “In His House in the Desert...”, “Russian Novel”, “Esav”.