Red Cavalry (Babel I.); Pushkin Press, 2014

'Unforgettable stories, lyrical and earthy' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times (Books of the Year) War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting - few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the fighting up close, Babel is able to find the funny side of war while depicting its bloody side - in all its mesmerising and casual violence. The lyricism and bitterness that characterise the thirty-give short stories of Red Cavalry are stunningly reproduced in this new translation by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk

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