Patrick O'Connor
Living in Momentous Times
The Bride From Odessa
By Edgardo Cozarinsky (Trans Nick Caistor)
Harvill Press 151pp £10.99 order from our bookshop
EACH OF EDGARDO Cozarinsky’s short stories seems to hold enough plot and hidden secrets for a whole novel or film-script. His little dramas of revenge or regret are built around the theme of exile, and involve the investigation of past events – half-remembered, revealed by evidence left hidden between the leaves of a book, found in an archive, or recounted in tales passed down through successive generations of a family.
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