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source: bookwyrm
date: 2025-01-26 00:29:24.00 +00
title: "Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/6386837
post_id: 6386837
bookwyrm_updated: 2025-01-26T00:29:24.833270+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "Odessa Stories"
book_author: "Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/774396
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk, published 2016-01-02 by Pushkin Press, Limited, 224 pages](./cover-6386837.jpeg)

Runyon's gangsters have more in common with Benya Krik than Hammett's, who gets a cover blurb, to me, but those characters are only in the first few stories—the rest are about a jewish boy's (the authors?) childhood in Odessa. I enjoyed them, but I'm going to put off starting the second Babel collection I've got for now.