NASTOYASCHIY MATERIAL (INFORMATSIYU) PROIZVEL INOSTRANNYY AGENT ULITSKAYA LYUDMILA EVGENEVNA, LIBO MATERIAL (INFORMATSIYA) KASAETSYA DEYATELNOSTI DANNOGO INOSTRANNOGO AGENTA. Roman Lyudmily Ulitskoy "Daniel SHtayn, perevodchik" - literaturnaya sensatsiya poslednih let. Ogromnye tirazhi (a ved rech idet o sochinenii slozhneyshem, dalekom ot belletristiki), spory, nakonets, premiya "BOLSHAYA KNIGA".
Daniel SHtayn (geroy imeet konkretnogo prototipa), s riskom dlya zhizni (on sam evrey) spasaet vo vremya Vtoroy mirovoy voyny okolo trehsot uznikov getto. V kontse voyny on, prinyav kreschenie, stanovitsya katolicheskim svyaschennikom i uezzhaet v Izrail, gde prodolzhaet svoe sluzhenie lyudyam - imenno tak on ponimaet svoyu missiyu. Ostrye voprosy very yavlyayutsya polnopravnymi geroyami povestvovaniya, hotya L. Ulitskaya ne raz govorila, chto ona "ne bogoslov i ne zanimaetsya propovedyu, a vsego lish rasskazyvaet ob unikalnom po svoey chestnosti i smelosti cheloveke".