Odessa Stories
A new mass-market edition of the acclaimed stories of violence, crime and sex'One of those where have you been all my life? books'Nick Lezard, GuardianIn the city of Odessa, the lawless streets hide darker stories of their own. From the magnetic cruelty of mob boss Benya Krik to the devastating account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, Odessa Stories uncovers the tales of gangsters, prostitutes, beggars and smugglers: no one can escape the pungent, sinewy force of Isaac Babel's pen.Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan slang is pitch-perfect, this acclaimed new translation…
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Weitere Autoren: Dralyuk, Boris (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78227-552-7
- EAN: 9781782275527
- Produktnummer: 29003518
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 748 KB
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Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45.
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