About the book: 1973 / The novel tells the story of the fate of the Jewish youth Volditer, who, on the eve of the Second World War, captured by Zionist propaganda, came to Palestine - the "Promised Land " Faced with reality, having learned the anti-national essence of Zionism, Walditer breaks with it and returns to his homeland, Bessarabia, which by that time had become part of the USSR.