The new - seventh in this series - book by Meir Shalev, the most popular prose writer in modern Israel, who is also loved by Russian readers, is an ironic but also sad story, one of the heroes of which is the author himself. You will read the story about Grandma Tonya, who selflessly fought with dirt all her life, about the vacuum cleaner given to her, which insidiously deceived her, about the donkey Eeyore who flew at night, about grandfather’s tree on which tomatoes grew along with anchovies, about the cunning stallion Whitey and much more. -many others, who entered the family mythology and were transformed by Shalev’s amazing talent into wonderful prose.