A collection of electric, heroically wrought Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukrainefor fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike)
Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babela Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessauncover its tough underbelly around the time of the Russian Revolution. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babels pen.
From the tales of the magnetic cruelty of Benya Krikinfamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literatureto the devastating semi-autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, this collection of stories is considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature.
Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories is the first ever stand-alone collection of Babels narratives set in the city and includes the original stories as well as later tales.
The salty speech of the citys inhabitants is wonderfully rendered in a new translation by Boris Dralyuk . . . Hard-boiled language reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett. Vice
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