Odessa Stories (Pushkin Collection)

Odessa Stories (Pushkin Collection) by Babel, Isaac. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781782271666.

Everyone makes mistakes, even God. In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution. Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature, this is the first ever stand-alone collection of all Babels narratives set in the city, and includes the original stories as well as later tales.