Philip Blasband's book is a classic saga, a story about a Jewish family, which reflects the entire history of the 20th century. Thirteen short stories. Thirteen lives. Thirteen Rabinovichs - from the eldest, a Hasid who has fallen and lost his faith, whom an angel warned about the coming pogrom, to the youngest - a baby with the strange name Ali Rabinovich, the fruit of the love of a quiet Arab and a Jewish woman, placed in an insane asylum by his own family.