Odessa Stories

by Isaac Babel

Book Overview

'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.'

In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution. Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature, this is the first ever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782274731
• ISBN13: 9781782274735
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"