Borya, leave the sea - 2. Odessa stories

“You can die, and then be born again, die anywhere, and be born here, for only here, on the slopes of the Langeron beach, among many litter, the invitingly screaming great happiness steps decorously:“ Lee-man mud! Liman mud! " - And Matrona glossy with fat with their thin husbands triumphantly sparkle in the sun with bright black legs. What a blessing is the dirt of the estuary! " - These words begins the story "Odessa. Marazlievskaya, 5 ". The same heroes in the stories "Borya, leave the sea", "Babel Odessa on Brighton", and in the Odessa stories. But the protagonist, or heroine of the book of Rafael Grugman, is Odessa, a city, not belonging to anyone: neither Russians, nor Ukrainians, nor Jews, nor Poles, a city of seekers of happiness, refugees and emigrants