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  • Odessa

  • Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
  • By: Charles King
  • Narrated by: Andy Caploe
  • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Odessa

By: Charles King
Narrated by: Andy Caploe
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Publisher's summary

"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic." (Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday)

In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city's Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.

©2011 Charles King (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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Fascinating story, appalling accents

This audio book would be greatly enhanced if its narrator stopped trying to mimic different accents when reproducing direct speech, a grotesque effort on his part that comes across as both amateurish and offensive.

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A very interesting and well written work but the narrator mispronounced almost every name. Audible should be responsible for giving people pronunciation coaches. In addition he spoke in accents reminiscent Bullwinkle’s Boris and Natasha. Very distracting.

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