The Bride from Odessa

Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of history, who, set down in a strange but proud land, looks back nostalgically to the Europe of his ancestral memory. Cozarinsky's characters are writers, lovers, scholars, artists and dreamers. An ambitious young Jew, about to marry and embark for a new life in Argentina is accosted by an unknown woman who departs with him to Buenos Aires; a pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub finds himself drawn back to Germany in 1937; an Argentine-American Jew travels to Lisbon to unravel the threads of his grandparents' wartime affair.

ISBN 1843430517   DEWEY 863.64 ISBN13 9781843430513 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Vintage   Pages 151 Imprint The Harvill Press   Weight (grammes) 177 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 22 Jan 2004   Height (mm) 220 Translator Nick Caistor   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress PQ7798.13.   Academic level Tertiary education, General

		The Bride from Odessa		1
		Literature		13
		Real Estate		29
		Days of 1937		41
		View of Dawn over a Lake		61
		Budapest		69
		Christmas '54		85
		Place Saint-Sulpice		97
		Married Bliss		101
		The Second Time		103
		Emigre Hotel		111

"A profound knowledge of the cultures of Mittel-europa, of the literatures of France, the United States and Britain translated into Buenos Aires vernacular, gives Cozarinsky's narratives a fiery intellectual strength and a powerful originality." -- Alberto Manguel

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