{"product_id":"of-sunshine-and-bedbugs-isbn-9781782277811","title":"Of Sunshine and Bedbugs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new   selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed   translations by Boris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsaac   Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature.   Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories   exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be   shaken by brutal jolts of violence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of   gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror   and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSelected and translated   by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence,   passion and coarse beauty of Babel's singular voice.\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Preface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Guy de Maupassant\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e(Part I) Childhood and Youth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Story of My Dovecote\u003cbr\u003e First Love\u003cbr\u003e In the Basement\u003cbr\u003e The Awakening\u003cbr\u003e Di Grasso\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e(Part II) Gangsters and “Old Odessans”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The King\u003cbr\u003e How It Was Done in Odessa\u003cbr\u003e Lyubka the Cossack\u003cbr\u003e Father\u003cbr\u003e Justice in Quotes\u003cbr\u003e The End of the Almshouse\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e(Part III) Red Cavalry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Crossing the Zbrucz\u003cbr\u003e The Catholic Church in Novograd\u003cbr\u003e A Letter\u003cbr\u003e Pan Apolek\u003cbr\u003e The Italian Sun\u003cbr\u003e Gedali\u003cbr\u003e My First Goose\u003cbr\u003e The Rebbe\u003cbr\u003e The Tachanka Doctrine\u003cbr\u003e The Death of Dolgushov\u003cbr\u003e The Life Story of Pavlichenko, Matvei Rodionych\u003cbr\u003e Salt\u003cbr\u003e The Rebbe’s Son\u003cbr\u003e ArgamakIsaac   Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and   journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian   civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was   hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in   1940, at the age of 45.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBoris   Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review   of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a literary translator and holds a   PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian   literature for a number of years. He has also taught at the University of St   Andrews, Scotland.A new selection of Isaac Babel’s most beautiful and raucously lively stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk","brand":"Pushkin Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303393054949,"sku":"NP9781782277811","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782277811.jpg?v=1767734017","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/of-sunshine-and-bedbugs-isbn-9781782277811","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}