Odessa

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1620107899

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Odessa by Jonathan Hill Pdf

Three siblings search for their missing mother across a ruined America in this original graphic novel perfect for fans of Scott Westerfeld and Neal Shusterman. Eight years ago an earthquake—the Big One—hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese-American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes and Harry. But when a mysterious package arrives for her eighteenth birthday, her life is shaken up yet again. For the first time, Ginny wants something more than to survive. And it might be a selfish desire, but she's determined to find out what happened to her mother—even if it means leaving her family behind.

Author : Charles King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393080520

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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King Pdf

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

Author : Vladislav Davidzon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1680539663

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From Odessa with Love by Vladislav Davidzon Pdf

"Born in Tashkent, raised in Moscow and New York City, an editor in Odessa, a correspondent in Paris, there seems nowhere Davidzon hasn't been, no one he hasn't met. The result is a distinctive voice and eye, an eclectic mix of the cultural critic, the political analyst and the liberal cosmopolitan, evident from the first page of this delightful book" - Mark Galeotti, University College London and Royal University Services Institute The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. The 2014 "Revolution of Dignity" heralded a tremendous transformation of Ukrainian politics and society that has continued to ripple and reverberate throughout the world. These unprecedented events also wrought a remarkable cultural revolution in Ukraine itself. In late 2015, a year and a half after the 2014 Revolution swept away the presidency of the Moscow-leaning kleptocratic President Viktor Yanukovich, Davidzon and his wife founded a literary journal, The Odessa Review, focusing on newly emergent trends in film, literature, painting, design, and fashion. The journal became an East European cultural institution, publishing outstanding writers in the region and beyond. From his vantage point as a journalist and editor, Davidzon came to observe events and know many of the leading figures in Ukrainian politics and culture, and to write about them for a Western audience. Davidzon later found himself in the center of world events as he became a United States government witness in the Ukraine scandal that shook the presidency of Donald Trump. This eagerly anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the keen and resilient perspective of an observer at its center.

Author : David Serero
Publisher : David Serero
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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OPERATION ODESSA by David Serero Pdf

The true story of a Russian Mobster (Ludwig Fainberg aka "Tarzan"), Cuban Spy, and Miami Playboy who hustled the Russian Mafia, the Cali Cartel, Pablo Escobar, the D.E.A by selling a Soviet Submarine to the Columbian Drug Cartel for $35 million in the 1990s. It was about the crazy life of a Jewish man from Odesa (Ukraine) who became a Russian mobster, hustled the Cali Cartel, and was arrested by the D.E.A. while he was buying a…Soviet submarine to help the Colombian cartel to bring drugs to the United States. You’ll read this story as a fascinating thriller, which truly deserves to be adapted as a feature film as it combines all the required elements to make it perfect. This story will take you to Odessa (Ukraine), New York, Miami, Moscow, Bogota, Panama and many more countries in the craziness of the 1990s…If you’re a fan of TV series such as Narcos, this story is for you! You'll discover the genuine life of Ludwig Fainberg (aka TARZAN), of Jewish origins, who was always very creative (With always a lot of comedy!) when it was about saving his life and used his « chutzpa » to come out of the most complex situations—written by David Serero.

Author : Nicolas V. Iljine
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Odesa (Ukraine)
ISBN : 9780295983455

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Odessa Memories by Nicolas V. Iljine Pdf

"Both a visual treat and a serious exploration of Odessa's rich history, culture, and social fabric, this book stands alone as a sumptuous homage to a storied city that has inspired affinity and curiosity all over the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407098012

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The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

Can you forgive the past? It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straighforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.

Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804766845

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The Jews of Odessa by Steven J. Zipperstein Pdf

Author : Harold N. Wiens
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 9781460282533

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Return to Odessa by Harold N. Wiens Pdf

Fictional events inspired by the experiences of the authors parents, Nikolai and Anna Wiens, who in 1925, as Russian Mennonites immigrated to Hepburn, Saskatchewan from Tschongrav, Crimea, and then two years later relocating to Manitoba.

Author : Tanya Richardson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802095633

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Kaleidoscopic Odessa by Tanya Richardson Pdf

Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state.

Author : Janet Skeslien Charles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608192328

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Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles Pdf

A tale inspired by the Russian mail-order bride industry finds young engineer Daria landing a secretary job at a foreign firm and redirecting her licentious boss toward a more willing mistress before taking work with a matchmaking agency, through which she meets an American teacher who fails to attract her as strongly as an irresponsible mobster. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint.

Author : Patricia Herlihy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0916458431

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Odessa by Patricia Herlihy Pdf

By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th century, however, strikes, revolutionary agitation, and pogroms brought on the city's decline. Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development in the 19th century with the growing tension in its society up to the First World War.

Author : Carolyn Shelton,Colin Chappell
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525520396

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The Odessa Chronicles by Carolyn Shelton,Colin Chappell Pdf

Odessa is a Barn Owl with an attitude, who befriended Jaxon (a magical Jackalope). The two of them met Dewey (a cat with all the usual cat characteristics based around a desire for a life of luxury), and the three of them moved into an empty farm. Joshua Pebblestone bought his dream farm. His life was now going to be spent immersed in the peace and quiet of rural life, but then he found that he had three lodgers! Jaxon worked his magic which allowed them all to communicate with each other and, by some cunning feline manipulation, Joshua was soon known as the man-servant! The man-servant had no idea how full of adventures and humor his life was to become, with the antics of his three lodgers. He also had no idea that they would quickly steal his heart and be his best friends!

Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810141094

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Farewell, Mama Odessa by Emil Draitser Pdf

Set in the summer of 1979 at the height of the movement to free Soviet Jewry, Farewell, Mama Odessa is an autobiographical novel whose intertwined storylines follow a variety of people—dissidents, victims of ethnic discrimination, and black marketeers among them—as they bid farewell to their beloved hometown of Odessa, Ukraine, and make their way to the West. At the book’s center is Boris, a young writer thwarted by state censorship and antisemitism. With an Angora kitten for his companion and together with other émigrés, he puts the old country in his rear-view mirror and sets out on a journey that will take him to Bratislava, Vienna, Rome, and New York on his way to Los Angeles. Will Boris be able to rekindle his creative passion and inspiration in the West? Will other Jewish émigrés fit into the new society, so much different than the one they left behind? With humor and compassion, Farewell, Mama Odessa describes the émigrés’ attempts at adjustment to the free world.

Author : Joseph Koenig
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453259634

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Little Odessa by Joseph Koenig Pdf

DIVIn the grimy hell of Brighton Beach, a stripper needs smarts to survive/divDIV/divDIVIn the waning years of the Soviet Union, only the very young or very old are allowed to immigrate to the United States. Places like Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach—or, as residents call it, “Little Odessa”—are flooded with teenage strivers eager to shake their accents and take what America has to offer. Kate Piro is as ambitious as they come, but her pluck only gets her as far as Times Square’s Starlight Club, where she dances naked under the stage name M. Anita Supreme./divDIV /divDIVAfter being assaulted by a drunken Nigerian diplomat, Kate meets a kindly cop who falls hard for the headstrong stripper. He wants to save her—or at least sleep with her—but Kate doesn’t need his help. She’s determined to get out of Brighton Beach, even though every man she meets drags her deeper into a cesspit of sleaze, vice, and murder./div

Author : Uki Goñi
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803510385

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The Real Odessa by Uki Goñi Pdf

The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands. As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international network that led them to Argentina. Goni demonstrates how numerous war criminals—including Adolf Eichmann, Joseph Mengele, Erich Priebke, and many others—made their escape with the support of the Vatican and President Juan Peron, as well as significant assistance from Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy. Both riveting and rigorous, this remarkable investigation sheds light on both a disquieting episode in Europe's history, and the ties between Argentinian Catholic Nationalism and Fascist movements in Europe.