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Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest, and Odessa, both before and after World War II, the eleven haunting stories in The Bride from Odessa belong to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: they tell of the uprooted exile who settles down in a strange but proud land and looks back nostalgically to the Europe of his ancestral memory. In stories that chart both time and continents, Edgardo Cozarinsky delves into the hearts of characters who struggle to distance themselves from the past while they find themselves drawn irrevocably back into it. Here is the tale of an ambitious young Jew, about to marry and embark for a new life in Argentina, who is accosted by an unknown woman who departs with him for Buenos Aires; that of a pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub who finds himself pulled back to the Germany of 1937; the story of an Argentine-American Jew who travels to Lisbon to unravel the threads of his grandparents' wartime affair; and of an elderly man and woman who meet, with fatal consequences, years after one had betrayed the other. Provocative and mysterious, The Bride from Odessa is a secret landscape, populated by writers, lovers, scholars, artists, and dreamers, from

Author

Cozarinsky, Edgardo; Caistor, Nick

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374116736

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities