{"product_id":"9781782274735","title":"Odessa Stories - Boris Dralyuk","description":"\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. From 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. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories 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":"Boris Dralyuk","offers":[{"title":"192 pages \/ 01\/11\/2018 \/ Classic fiction (pre c 1945)","offer_id":56970415341943,"sku":"9781782274735","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781782274735_b088e26b-22d0-4974-8b71-861d6436c7ae.jpg?v=1779380866","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781782274735","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}