Odessa Stories

New mass-market edition of Isaac Babel's legendary short stories of violence, sex and criminality, translated by Boris Dralyuk. Auster, Saunders and Updike are all fans.

About the author

Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45.

Summary

A collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution.

Foreword

A new mass-market edition of the acclaimed stories of violence, crime and sex

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk
• Assisted by: Boris Dralyuk (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781782274735
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-473-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature