The Odessans
$36.68
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2016
Summary
An epic and engrossing novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, THE ODESSANS is the story of three families from Odessa in the Ukraine: the Russian Petrovs, the Jewish Geibers, and the Teslenkos, who are of Ukrainian and Polish descent. Throughout years of war, famine, political struggle and incredible hardship, their deep friendships sustain each of the families. Their lives are rent by tragedy; some friends are hounded by anti-Semites, while others join opposite sides in the Civ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473637269 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473637260 |
| Author: | Irina Ratushinskaya |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Irina Ratushinskaya
Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa in 1954, is a leading contemporary Russian poet. She was imprisoned for four years in a labor camp due to the religious themes in her poetry, which were considered ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. Ratushinskaya smuggled her poems out of the camp and, following a series of hunger strikes, was released and subsequently came to Britain.
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