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Odessa. Splendore E Tragedia Di Una Città Di Sogno (2013)

by Charles King(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8806217410 (ISBN13: 9788806217419)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: Great read! I've postponed reading a monograph on Odessa since a few years ago when I was due to move there for a job, which in the end didn't happen. As a Romanian, it was painful to read the important history testimonials, not captured in the history books I grew up with, the ones about Romania as an imperial power during the World War II, the Romanian occupation, the Transnistria Governorate, the 1941 Odessa massacre, the Romanian eugenic practices.There's one downside to how the story is told, though: at some point the book takes a turn and does not come back to what should be the main storyline. The side-turn is the history of Jewish Odessa (I'm sure crucial to understanding the city, but probably not the only story worth exploring).
review 2: I read this... more because I've been nibbling on 'The Complete Works of Isaac Babel' for a couple of years now. He has such a distinctive voice, one I have never come across before. Could it be the translation? Could it be Odessa? This is a fascinating history of a city from founding to now. The chapter on Pushkin was especially spirited. I found out there is a lot more to Isaac Babel than Odessa and a lot more to Odessa than a baby carriage going down a long flight of stairs. less

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