British novelist of American-Jewish origin Russell Hoban is a separate phenomenon in English-language literature, a magical surrealist, a true Londoner, born in Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian Jews, a participant in World War II. At first, Hoban wrote only for children, but since 1973 - just with the novels “Lev Boaz-Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boazov” (1973) and “Kleinzeit” (1974) - he begins to write for adults, and this is our great luck . “Dodo Press” has long wanted to publish two much denser and more powerful of his novels - two parables about fearlessness and immortality, the strength and weakness of creators, about personally hard-won meanings, about what fathers and sons should or should not owe each other, “Lion Boaz -Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boazov" and "Kleinzeit". And besides, Hoban is a real poet and linguistic balancing act, his figurative language creates a multi-layered shadow of fresh meanings behind each object.