1931Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel
Babel's dazzling stories bring to life the Jewish underworld of Odessa in the years around the Revolution, above all the flamboyant gangster king Benya Krik. The real city is their stage: the Moldavanka, the poor Jewish quarter that is the gangsters' realm, the bustling port and its draymen, the taverns where the raids are planned, and the bourgeois centre along Deribasovskaya that the King's men so gorgeously rob.
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