{"product_id":"books-odessa-stories-by-isaac-babel","title":"Odessa Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"It is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel\" \u003cem\u003eFT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOdessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, \u003cem\u003eOdessa Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is the first ever stand-alone collection of all the stories Babel set in the city - and includes tales from the original collection as well as later ones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54423892099345,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781782271666.jpg?v=1787601282","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-odessa-stories-by-isaac-babel","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}