The well-known author of “gariks,” Igor Guberman, and the artist Alexander Okun have long been working as a creative tandem. Now, from their pens, there has emerged a completely extraordinary book—describing Israel the way these authors have never managed before, perhaps, no one else. Their work faintly reminds one of “A World History Retold in The Satyricon,” except that here “worldness” is reduced to a specific geographic point, and the “people” are reduced to a specific anthropological reality. History, the Abrahamic religions, economics, legends, yarns, jokes, anecdotes, war, art—all are mixed here into an explosive mash-up. Anyone with an interest in the ancient land of prophets can find in this book plenty of informative, surprising, useful, amusing, and instructive facts.