Odesa At Dawn

Author : Sally McGrane
Publisher : V&Q Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783863913601

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Odesa at Dawn by Sally McGrane Pdf

Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max stumbles across a solitary toe, with the same tell-tale markings. The downsized professional can't help himself – he has to investigate. With the Russian threat in the background, Max's quest takes him down to the crumbling underbelly of the beautiful Black Sea port city, once the Russian Empire's glittering third capital. It leads him to dubious businessmen, corrupt officials, catacomb dwellers, scientists, pastry-chefs, poets, archivists, cops – and killers. As global political tensions rise, Max begins to untangle the threads of the case. But he is also being tracked – and not just by Odesa's network of mafia-minded stray cats, who may be the only ones who really know what's going on. In this surreal contemporary spin on the classic spy thriller, Sally McGrane pays tribute to one-time Odesa residents like Babel, Gogol, Pushkin and Chekhov, and to the city itself, creating a darkly witty, beguiling and bizarre work of fiction like nothing before. Tokarczuk meets Bulgakov meets Le Carré, in this affectionate portrait of a complex and fascinating city.

Author : Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253070135

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Jewish Odesa by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum Pdf

Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its independence. Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years. Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with ties to Odesa to change still further.

Author : Mirja Lecke,Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887192581

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Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa by Mirja Lecke,Efraim Sicher Pdf

Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.

Author : Myroslav Shkandrij
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300156256

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Jews in Ukrainian Literature by Myroslav Shkandrij Pdf

This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were antagonistic toward one another and interacted only when compelled to do so by economic necessity.Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesizes recent research in the West and in the Ukraine, where access to Soviet-era literature has become possible only in the recent, post-independence period. Many of the works discussed are either little-known or unknown in the West. By demonstrating how Ukrainians have imagined their historical encounters with Jews in different ways over the decades, this account also shows how the Jewish presence has contributed to the acceptance of cultural diversity within contemporary Ukraine.

Author : Matt Gallagher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501177873

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Daybreak by Matt Gallagher Pdf

A disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from his past in this timely and powerful novel from a “vital” (The Washington Post) voice in contemporary literature. Thirty-three-year-old Luke “Pax” Paxton has been out of the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax isn’t merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries with him the address of a former love, a Ukrainian woman named Svitlana whom he had known as a young soldier and has been unable to forget. His feverish journey through Lviv takes him down winding and missile-cratered streets as he forms surprising connections with everyone from humanitarian volunteers to displaced Ukrainians and ordinary citizens trying to survive. And when Pax gets the chance to save someone dear to Svitlana, he just might be able to correct the wrongs that have wracked him with guilt for so many years. Inspired by the author’s time in Ukraine, Daybreak is a deeply moving love story, as well as an exploration of the struggle to find meaning and redemption in the midst of war.

Author : David Lucin
Publisher : Highway 3 Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Night Before Dawn by David Lucin Pdf

Mankind is its own worst enemy. Nuclear winter has descended upon Flagstaff. With food reserves critical, New River flu spreading uncontrollably, and hundreds dead already, morale is at an all-time low. The First Platoon of the Flagstaff Militia has been tasked with escorting a routine trading expedition to the nearby Navajo Nation. When the Navajo fail to arrive at the agreed-upon time and place, Jenn and a team of scouts seek to ascertain why. What they discover proves far stranger and more dangerous than anything they could have imagined. War is coming to Flagstaff, and defeat promises nothing short of annihilation. To protect her family and friends, Jenn will have to confront this new enemy head-on, follow in her brothers’ footsteps, and embrace her role as a soldier once and for all. Night Before Dawn is the fifth book in David Lucin's Desolation series.

Author : Jules Romains
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076005511907

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Men of Good Will: The new day: Book 19. Promise of dawn. Book 20. The world is your adventure by Jules Romains Pdf

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783745371

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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity by Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.

Author : Serhiy Bilenky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228018599

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Laboratory of Modernity by Serhiy Bilenky Pdf

When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives of its inhabitants, shaping modern Ukraine into the multiethnic country it is today. Making innovative use of methods of social and cultural history, gender studies, literary theory, and sociology, Laboratory of Modernity explores the history of Ukraine throughout the long nineteenth century and offers a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. Despite being subjected to different and conflicting power models during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ukraine was not only imagined as a distinct entity with a unique culture and history but was also realized as a set of social and political institutions. The story of modern Ukraine is geopolitically complex, encompassing the historical narratives of several major communities – including ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Russians – who for centuries lived side by side. The first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Laboratory of Modernity traces the historical origins of some of the most pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.

Author : Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250751201

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The Kobalt Dossier by Eric Van Lustbader Pdf

Evan Ryder is back in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister’s children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis’s supporters, Evan and her former boss, Ben Butler, must learn to work together as partners – and navigate their intricate past. Their search will take them from Istanbul to Odessa to an ancient church deep within the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. And all along the way, an unimaginable enemy stalks in the shadows, an adversary whose secretive past will upend Evan’s entire world and everything she holds dear. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sally McGrane
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915089151

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Moscow at Midnight by Sally McGrane Pdf

Max Rushmore is re-hired by the CIA to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max, who can drink even the Russians under the table, soon uncovers all sorts of inconsistencies: could it even be that she is not dead at all? So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes Max across Russia, from St Petersburg to Novosibirsk, as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. With all the breathless tension of classic espionage novels, Moscow at Midnight is both humorous and utterly enthralling – in every sense, a fast-paced pageturner of the old school. “This playful spy thriller has Max, out on his ear from the CIA, picking up some dodgy contract work that sends him back to his former stamping ground. But contemporary Russia, where Max finds his old contacts clinging on, turns out to be so deliriously weird and dangerous that Cold War espionage starts to look simple. There’s grimy charm, acerbic wit and an OTT plot – but in Russia these days, you could well believe it.” Sunday Times Crime Club – Star pick for September 2017 “Moscow at Midnight is a highly entertaining contemporary spy thriller. The fast-paced plot and light, easy flow of the narrative is enhanced...by occasional poetic descriptions and McGrane's skillful play with genre conventions... I would highly recommend it for a fun, entertaining read which raises questions in the reader’s mind long after the final page has been turned.” Ann Winter, Mslexia “Sally McGrane’s fantastic debut . . . is, in its observations and marginalia, a whole-hearted declaration of love for the madness of Russia in general – and Moscow in particular.” Die Welt (book of the week) “A worthy successor to John le Carré ... A fast-paced, well-written spy thriller, full of unexpected twists and turns.” Buchbord “Great! Tense right up to the final page . . . A multi-layered, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down, from beginning to end.” Süddeutsche Zeitung "Everyone's talking about Russia but this is a book that really takes you there, a crime thriller with a truly documentary eye, full of insights about Russian people, politics and culture- while never failing to intrigue and excite." Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Christian converts from Judaism
ISBN : NYPL:33433075492920

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The Dawn. [Pittsburgh]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Fountain
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101904060

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The Great Quake by Henry Fountain Pdf

On March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one.

Author : Mark Neville
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3958296181

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Mark Neville by Mark Neville Pdf

Since 2015, British photographer Mark Neville (born 1966) has been documenting life in Ukraine, with subjects ranging from holidaymakers on the beaches of Odessa and the Roma communities on the Hungarian border to those internally displaced by the war in Eastern Ukraine. Employing his activist strategy of a targeted book dissemination, Neville is committed to making a direct impact upon the war in Ukraine. He will distribute 2,000 copies of this volume free to policy makers, opinion makers, members of parliament both in Ukraine and Russia, members of the international community and those involved directly in the Minsk Agreements. He means to reignite awareness about the war, galvanize the peace talks and attempt to halt the daily bombing and casualties in Eastern Ukraine which have been occurring for four years now. Neville's images are accompanied by writings from both Russian and Ukrainian novelists, as well as texts from policy makers and the international community, to suggest how to end the conflict.

Author : 2018
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781387984602

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THE HERMETIC TABLET by 2018 Pdf

Hermetic Tablet is an annual Journal of Western Ritual Magic where people, from all traditions, share their experiences. Some of the contributors are well known names in the occult field, while others are just those who want to share knowledge and experiences with the public. This issue contains articles by Nick Farrell, Aaron Leitch, Jayne Gibson, Tony Fuller, Ina Custers-Van Bergen, Christine Zalewski, Eirini Tsotsou, Constantinos Nterziotis, João Pedro Feliciano, Naomi Ozaniec, Adam Pearson, Mat Ravignat, Angelo Albano and Ian Rees. The Journal covers subjects related to Western Ritual Magic including Goetia, Golden Dawn, Wicca, Theurgy, Angelic Magic, Ancient Egypt, Hermetics and pagan ritual.