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In a bar in the Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Crespo our narrator recalls his encounters with an old man of Lithuanian descent, Samuel Warschauer, whom he came to know shortly before the man died. Among his papers, he found the script of a curious play entitled The Moldavian Pimp, performed in Yiddish in the poor, Jewish area of the city in 1927-28. The play concerned young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promises of freedom and a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution.
Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s to the present day, Edgardo Cozarinsky's beautiful and moving novel about Jewish immigrants may be among the few records we have of an extraordinary and little-known twilight society.
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'Occasionally you come on someone you have never read before and discover that the work is so good it dispels ennui and restores your faith in imaginative literature. The Bride from Odessa is just such a book' Allan Massie, (Scotsman)
'Cozarinsky's writing is subtle and suggestive enough to warn against paraphrase and the drawing of conclusions, but it often explores these interstices between History and personal history, examining the ways that people use, depend on, and are trapped by their past' (TLS)
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'Occasionally you come on someone you have never read before and discover that the work is so good it dispels ennui and restores your faith in imaginative literature. The Bride from Odessa is just such a book' Allan Massie, (Scotsman)
'Cozarinsky's writing is subtle and suggestive enough to warn against paraphrase and the drawing of conclusions, but it often explores these interstices between History and personal history, examining the ways that people use, depend on, and are trapped by their past' (TLS)
A first novel by the celebrated film-maker and short story writer whose collection, The Bride from Odessa, was acclaimed in Britain and in many other countries.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 184343234X
- ISBN 13 9781843432340
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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