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Charles King
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

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Winner of a National Jewish Book Award

‘Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject.’ —Jan Morris, Literary Review

From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed account of the destruction of the city’s Jewish community during the Second World War, Charles King’s Odessa is both history and elegy—a vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.

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About the author

Charles King is a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University. A frequent media commentator on global issues, he is the author of Gods of the Upper Air, Odessa, Midnight in the Pera Palace, and other books. He lives in Washington, DC.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 338 ● ISBN 9780393080520 ● File size 1.8 MB ● Publisher W. W. Norton & Company ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7467577 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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