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Shalom Bonjour Odessa
- Lady Ronit
- Sep 10, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 18, 2024
Aleksandra Majdzińska, 2024
If one can fall in love with a city, and I know one can, and if one can fall in love with words, then after reading this work, I fell in love with Odessa and Aleksandra Majdzińska’s pen. Here, reality intertwines with history. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that this beautiful, yet not easy, and even cruel world is so close. Odessa Mama seems suspended in time, unchanged, resistant to the crushing influence of technology and the rush of our times. Again, I repeat the word, time.
Shalom Bonjour Odessa is a journey through time. Two years. Eighty years. A hundred years as well. A wandering through alleys of diversity. Ukrainians, Jews, French, Greeks, and Georgians. Regardless of origin, everyone falls in love with Odessa.
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