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Overview
As all of his works, these stories are a nightmare to translate. You are lucky if you can read the original. Set 100 years ago, these tales tell of the lives of the people of Odessa, a big Ukrainian city and a port, run by gangsters, which are, interestingly, Jewish gangsters. So we get characters such as Lyubka the Cossack, who ignores her newborn baby in order to run her business empire; and, the greatest of all, Benya Krik, the King.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781544253305
- ISBN-10: 1544253303
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: August 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.19 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 94
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