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The Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siecle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movement whose literary talents, until now, have largely gone unrecognized by Western readers. The author deftly paints a picture of Russia's decay and decline - a world permeated with sexuality, mystery, and intrigue. Michael R. Katz has crafted the first English-language translation of this important novel, which was written in Russian in 1935 and published a year later in Paris under the title Pyatero. The book is Jabotinsky's elegaic paean to the Odessa of his youth, a place that no longer exists. It tells the story of an upper-middle-class Jewish family, the Milgroms, at the turn of the century. It follows five siblings as they change, mature, and come to accept their places in a rapidly evolving world. With flashes of humor, Jabotinsky captures the ferment of the time as reflected in political, social, artistic, and spiritual developments. He depicts with nostalgia the excitement of life in old Odessa and comments poignantly on the failure of the dream of Jewish assimilation within the Russian empire.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Five
• Subtitle: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa
• Author: Vladimir Jabotinsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780801489037
• ISBN: 0801489032
• ID: 04708036
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 153 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. April 2005

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