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Erma Odrach

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I am a writer/translator living in Toronto, Canada. At present, I am focusing my attention mostly on translating the works of my late father, Theodore Odrach. I have opted to act as his voice on Goodreads.
Wave of Terror, published by Academy Chicago Publishers, is my father's first novel to appear in English: Stalin has just come to power, the world has turned up-side down, and there's tyranny at every corner. Wave of Terror provides a microcosmic examination of the new Soviet order at the start of WWII. (Available most places online or check out your local library.)

PRAISE FOR WAVE OF TERROR

-"Theodore Odrach is that rare thing, a political novelist who is also an artist of the first rank." -Times Literary Supplement.

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Average rating: 4.17 · 70 ratings · 38 reviews · 1 distinct work
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Death Pits (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 03, 2011 04:29pm
Description: It's the start of WWII. The Red Army seizes the town of Kovel in 1939 (then a part of eastern Poland) and "as if overnight atrocities begin to occur." This is an eye-witness account. By Theodore Odrach.
Wave of Terror (Literature & Fiction)
2 chapters   —   updated Jun 25, 2009 08:00am
Description: An NKVD man and a girl

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The Secret Piano by Zhu Xiao-Mei
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Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
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The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
" Sometimes in his dreams Chen Pie Sou returns to his childhood in Shantou, China, and to the day of his father's first departure for the "Gold Mountain" in Indochina. His father, Chen Kai, had tied a small good luck charm around his neck: a tiny ro... "
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Early Stories (Oxford World's Classics by Anton Chekhov
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It's easy to be sympathetic to all of Chekhov's characters, even in these early stories. Some are funny, farcical and even outrageous, while others are very sad. In the comedy "A Drama", Medusina bores a famous writer, Pavel Vasilyevich, to death wit...more
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