{"product_id":"odessa-stories-1782274731","title":"Odessa Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1782274731\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Babel, Isaac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of electric, heroically wrought Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukraine-for fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike)Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel-a Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessa-uncover 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 Krik-infamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature-to 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51904405569824,"sku":"NEW1782274731","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/817C3bmv0gL.jpg?v=1782183742","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/odessa-stories-1782274731","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}