Here Comes the Messiah!

Dina Rubina

1996

…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment.

After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for the longest time, the ordinary Russian practice of having three separate surnames in one family: the father’s, the son’s and the holy ghost’s from…

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Dina Rubina

b. 1953

Dina Rubina is a Soviet-born author, from Tashkent, who has lived in Israel since 1990. A writer of Russian-language prose, she is the author of some twenty books that have been translated into a dozen languages, often dealing with the immigrant experience. She has received numerous literary honors, including the Arie Dulchin Award, nominations for the Russian Booker Prize, and an award from the Israel Writers’ Union.

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