Legends of Invalid Street

Efraim Sevela (1928-2010) - a world-famous writer, filmmaker, and screenwriter - wrote his first book while in exile (a collection of stories "Legends of Invalid Street," which received wide recognition). Today, his name can be placed alongside such authors of... satirical and tragicomic prose as Jaroslav Hašek, Sholom Aleichem, and Mikhail Zoshchenko. Efraim Sevela's stories about émigrés and parrots "with worldly sorrow in their round eyes," about global cataclysms and the modest concerns of small people dreaming of happiness, about sinful righteous people and righteous sinners are written with remarkable humor and skill. This edition includes the most famous novellas and stories by Efraim Sevela.