What connects the Soviet engineer Vasilkov, the Chinese translator Xiang-tse, the security guard Max and the Russian Israeli Olga? Gil-gul. In Kabbalah, this term means “wheel of time,” the transmigration of souls.* * *What connects the Soviet engineer Vasilkov, the Chinese translator Xiang-tse, the security guard Max and the Russian Israeli Olga? Gil-gul. In Kabbalah, this term means “wheel of time,” the transmigration of souls. The action of the novel takes place in China in the fifties of the last century and in modern Israel. The magicians of antiquity and the Maoist politics of the “Great Leap Forward”, Jewish dogma and communist ideals, Chinese theater and construction sites of the century, passionate love and the everyday life of an Israeli hospital, refined feelings and the meat grinder of history... A novel from which it is impossible to tear yourself away, in which everyone will find a piece of their own soul .