The text is read by Efim ShifrinForeword ("On strength and kindness") is read by the author, Ruben GallegoAcknowledgments is read by Polina Tal Meltzer I am a hero . It's easy to be a hero. If you have no arms or legs, you are a hero or a dead man. If you don't have parents, rely on your arms and legs. And be a hero. If you have neither arms nor legs, and you also managed to be born an orphan - that's it. You are doomed to be a hero until the end of your days. Or take a breath. I am a hero. I just have no other choice."White on Black" by Ruben David González GallegoA brilliant autobiographical novel in the stories "White on Black", which became a sensation already in a magazine publication and subsequently received Russian Booker Award for the best novel of 2003.Author's note:Many times I was advised to make an audio version of my book. I was almost sure that there was no need to use my voice in the recording.Once, when I left the hospital after a major operation, my friend Alla Kulakova said that she would like to have an audiobook performed by me. I understood that I didn’t have enough strength to read the whole book myself, but I liked the idea of reading the author’s preface - the chapter “On Strength and Kindness”.When I was told that my favorite artist Nakhim Shifrin would voice the book , I was very happy and immediately agreed.I like a world in which everyone does their own thing: the writer writes, and the artist plays.Ruben David González Gallego.< /p>CopyrightDirector: Dmitry Kreminsky© Ruben David González GallegoRecorded by the Vimbo Production Center © ℗ LLC “Vimbo, Russia, Moscow, 2017Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail LitvakovSpecial thanks for the recording of Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego and Polina Tal Meltzer of SweetSound Studio, Tel-Aviv , Israel, and sound engineer Uri Kalyan.

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