Here Comes the Messiah!..

«Here Comes the Messiah!» by Dina Rubina was written during her emigration to Israel and refers to the author's early works. The novel consists of novellas and describes the ordinary daily life of regular people in Israel who face the challenges of adapting to a new environment. It is filled with colorful descriptions of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and primarily dedicated to the theme of the Homeland and the feeling of the Homeland that repatriates strive to find. The novel describes the relocation of the family of the famous writer N. The heroine of another storyline is a forty-year-old music teacher named Zyama, who published an appendix to a Russian-language newspaper. The hero of the next novella, linking and separating the heroines, is Israel itself, the promised land, where no one was waiting for Russian Jews. The characters are only happy in a country where the Israeli heat, the foreign linguistic environment, where people earn their bread by any means—the music teacher publishes a political-literary magazine, and the writer washes the floors in offices in the evenings, where at night the sounds of gunfire can be heard, and sons are taken away to the army.