Farewell, Mama Odessa

by Emil Draitser

Set in the summer of 1979 at the height of the movement to free Soviet Jewry, Farewell, Mama Odessa is an autobiographical novel whose intertwined storylines follow a variety of people--dissidents, victims of ethnic discrimination, and black marketeers among them--as they bid farewell to their beloved hometown of Odessa, Ukraine, and make their way to the West. At the book's center is Boris, a young writer thwarted by state censorship and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141086
• ISBN13: 9780810141087
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"