The famous Kiev writer Boris Stern wrote a novel for the first time in his thirty-year literary career. This alone should attract the public's attention to The Ethiopian. And this attention, once attracted, the novel will never let go. “Ethiopian” is a bright, juicy, uninhibited grotesque. This novel is unbridled fun. This novel is caustic and sarcastic. This novel... In general, this is Boris Stern, who discovered a new - epic - facet of his literary talent. In short. During the hasty departure of the remnants of Wrangel’s army from Crimea, the Ethiopian skipper takes the Ukrainian boy Sashko to the country of Ophir, planning to repeat the successful experience of Tsar Peter in mixing Ethiopian and Slavic blood. Peter's efforts, as is known, culminated in the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The results of the repeated experiment exceeded all expectations...