The Way Home

There is only one road to the place called Dead End — from the neighboring village of Zhabinsk, through a remote forest where all sorts of evil creatures dwell. The river cannot be crossed here — impenetrable swamps. A dead end, in a word. But the heroes of the novel, teenagers Yehuda-Leib and Bluma, end up from Dead End in the Far Lands — a land of demons and the dead. Each by their own path. Yet they will have to return home together. Moreover, no one returns from the House of Death…

Gavriel Savit, drawing on Eastern European Jewish folklore, wrote a captivating fantasy novel, a true gift for fans of Neil Gaiman's and Philip Pullman's works.