At the center of this novel is the story of an imaginative child who will one day become a writer, the tragic marriage of his parents, as well as the story of the strange, in the eyes of a child, birth of a state. Surrounding the central core are the great migrations, the great ideas, the great impasses of the 20th century, but also the personal traumas that history sometimes leaves in people's souls. A novel that at times becomes epic like a musical symphony and at other times low-key and tender like a child's confession, "Love and Darkness" is considered the masterpiece of the great Israeli peace-loving writer and one of the most important literary works of our time.