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Die Welt der russisch-jüdischen Familie aus Hamburg, um die es in Maxim Billers neuem Roman Mama Odessa geht, ist voller Geheimnisse, Verrat und Literatur. Wir hören aber auch ein kluges, schönes und wahrhaftiges Hörbuch über einen Sohn und eine Mutter, beide Schriftsteller, die sich lieben, wegen des Schreibens immer wieder verraten – und einander trotzdem nie verlieren.

In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city's Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.

Cloak and dagger espionage, assassination, dangerous adventure, and strange deceptions such as the Operation Mincemeat plan wherein the corpse of a Welsh pauper fitted with a uniform and false papers deceived the Nazi hierarchy about the location of the Western Allies' first landing in Europe, all constitute as real a part of World War II's kaleidoscopically varied history as battles and clear-cut policies.