Small-town romance " - a kind of requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl , on the whole planet , fidgeting over six centuries before his death around the mean Lithuanian sun. The basis of this memoir novel based on real events and facts from the life of a big family of the author and his fellow - workers. " Small-town romance " as it closes the loop of such books Gregory Kanovich as " Candle in the Wind ", " Tears and prayers are fools , " Park of the Jews "and" The charm of Satan " , completing the saga of Lithuanian Jewry .
Kanovitch Gregory was born in 1929 in Lithuania in the town of $ s . He graduated from the University of Vilnius . Began to write in 1948. Released four collections of poetry . Since 1959, writes fiction . The author of nine novels - " Candle in the Wind" , " Tears and prayers of Fools ," " Kid for two pennies ," " Charm of Satan " and others. Laureate of the State Prize of Lithuania ( novels " The tears and prayers of Fools" and "I do not have servants of Paradise" ) . During his literary career was awarded the Order of Gediminas . Gregory works Kanovich who since 1993 lives in Israel , have been translated into twelve languages.
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