Udivitel'naya i trogatel'naya istoriya zhizni Leyba Groysmana, avantyurista i zabotlivogo patriarha semeystva, geniya predprinimatel'stva i prosto malen'kogo cheloveka na fone bol'shih sobytiy XX veka.
Da, Leyb Groysman-ne samyy primetnyy i daleko ne ideal'nyy chelovek. No on-taki umel zhit', dobivat'sya uspekha i vsegda zabotilsya o svoey sem'e. Leyb Groysman dvigalsya vpered, nesmotrya na vse ispytaniya i nevzgody, chto podkidyvala emu zhizn'. I chto by on ni delal, osnovnoy dvizhushchey siloy etogo velikogo kombinatora vsegda byla lyubov'-k roditelyam, zhene, detyam, plemyannikam i vnukam. V konce puti, sostarivshis' i ostavshis' naedine so svoimi vospominaniyami, on berezhno perebiraet v pamyati upushchennye vozmozhnosti, zabroshennye mechty, ne skazannye odnazhdy slova.
V etoy udivitel'noy semeynoy sage istoriya stanovitsya osyazaemoy, obretaet formu i obraz. V cherede vymyshlennyh sobytiy otdel'nye tochno opisannye detali-neveroyatno yarkie i zhivye osobennosti evreyskogo byta i rechi, haraktery zhiteley Raygoroda-ceplyayut i daryat radost' uznavaniya. Gorech' i pechal' v romane sosedstvuyut s radost'yu i schast'em. A v samom serdce etoy istorii zhivet svetlaya nadezhda i, konechno, lyubov'.
