★ A new work by Dina Rubina, winner of Russia’s Big Book Award. Using the unique genre of “biography in pictures,” it creates a compelling character story.
★ Focusing on psychiatrist Gurevich, it portrays his absurd predicaments and warm inner core, blending humor and healing. The absence of a tragic ending adds extra comfort.
★ Condensing the author’s creative career into 380 pages, it features a distinctive writing style. Readers describe it as “warm and funny,” capable of lifting moods and bringing smiles.

Dina Rubina adopts the genre of “biography in pictures,” transforming a biography into a series of engaging stories. After all, what remains after a person’s death? Undoubtedly, stories. The more vivid a person is, the more stories they leave behind; the broader the scope of their personality, the more diverse the stories. The protagonist of this book, Simon Gurevich, is a psychiatrist. Surely, this alone evokes much—both tragedy and humor. As someone with “a borderline psyche and a manic consciousness,” he often finds himself in various absurd and paradoxical situations. Yet his kindness and enthusiasm towards his patients always arouse readers’ sympathy, gentle sorrow, and sincere admiration.

Dina Rubina, Writer, Editor, Screenwriter.

Born on September 19, 1953, in Tashkent (Uzbek SSR). She graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory in 1977 and once taught at the Tashkent Institute of Culture.

Dina Rubina’s early youth works were published in the magazine *Yunost* (Youth). She lived and worked in Moscow for some time and has resided in Israel since 1990. After moving to Israel, she served as a literary editor for the weekly literary supplement *Pyatnitsa* (Friday) of the Russian-language newspaper *Nasha Strana* (Our Country). During this period, her works began to appear in major Russian literary journals such as *Novy Mir* (New World), *Znamya* (Banner), and *Druzhba Narodov* (Friendship of Peoples). She is a member of the Writers’ Union of the Uzbek SSR (since 1978), the Writers’ Union of the USSR (since 1979), the International PEN Club, and the Union of Russian-Language Writers of Israel (since 1990).

She has been awarded the Uzbekistan Ministry of Culture Prize, the Aryeh Dulchin Prize (Israel), the Israel Writers’ Union Prize, the Oleg Tabakov Charitable Foundation Prize (for her short story *Adam and Miriam* published in *Druzhba Narodov*), and the Portal Prize for Best Science Fiction Work (Long Form) for her novel *Leonardo’s Handwriting*. She won the Big Book Award in 2007 for her novel *On the Sunny Side of the Street*, was shortlisted for the National Literary Big Book Award in 2015 for her trilogy *The Russian Canary*, and in 2020 for her trilogy *Napoleon’s Convoy: Volume 1 – The Hawthorn Wedge; Volume 2 – The White Horses; Volume 3 – The Angel’s Trumpet*. The trilogy ranked 2nd in reader voting in 2020.