Charles King

Odessa (eBook, ePUB)

Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 elegya vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393080520
• Artikelnr.: 59590011

Autorenporträt

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.