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Of Sunshine and Bedbugs, July 2022
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OF SUNSHINE AND BEDBUGS
By: Isaac Babel

Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection
July 2022
On Sale: June 28, 2022
224 pages
ISBN: 1782277811
EAN: 9781782277811
Kindle: B09HGX33TV
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Literature and Fiction | Anthology

Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence.

These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War.
 
Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence, passion and coarse beauty of Babel's singular voice.