Books by Alina Bronsky
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review 1: Sjajno, sjajno! Ovo je nešto sasvim različito od... pa, od svega što sam u zadnje vrijeme pročitala. Ne znam točno gdje sam pročitala kako je ovo "humoristična priča" - nije mi jasno kako je netko to mogao tako okarakterizirati. Da, ova priča svakako ima humorističnih dijelova, a...
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review 1: “Broken Glass Park” is a coming-of-age novel with an edge. Coming of age novels have historically been a province (Dickens, Joyce, Salinger, the country naïfs that Flaubert and Balzac set loose in Paris; “Jane Eyre”, for example, although it follows the heroine through much trava...
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review 1: Such an unusual, smart book. Told in the first person, we see Rosa, her daughter, and her granddaughter from Rosa's skewed, perhaps deranged, perspective. Rosa firmly believes she is the best at everything (or that if given opportunity, she can become the best), that she makes ...
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review 1: One of the messages of this delightful AND disturbing book is that self-centered monsters often not only survive but somehow thrive. With a trail of destruction behind her, Rosa, the terribly unreliable first-person narrator of "The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine," does ju...
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review 1: Hoc začiatky knihy sú takmer fraškoidné (miestami sa mi pripomínal Arto Paasilinna), tragikomický príbeh sa postupne rozvíja spôsobom, ktorý je takmer dojímavý. Určite osviežujúce čítanie - veselo o vážnych veciach, napriek tomu si však kniha zachováva svoju dôstojnosť a neskĺzav...
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review 1: Schööööööööön! Hat mir supergut gefallen - obwohl sehr skuril,obwohl es - zumindest teilweise - in Russland spielt, was eigentlich nicht so meins ist. Aber Sophie Rois liest sehr, sehr gut - liegt mir einfach. Ich habe oft breit gegrinst resp. laut gelacht, obwohl die Story manch...
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review 1: russian girl growing up in w germany, and her many setbacks and tenacious will to succeed, succeed better than any damn else. bronsky's 1st novel and 1st novel to be translated to englsih (by tim mohr!) and was nominated for big prize in europe (though fairly unknown in usa, cuz ...
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review 1: Tough, sometimes too self-consciously sassy, coming-of-age story of a girl orphaned by a murder, set on a violent German housing estate. It has all the brilliant, unfettered, idiosyncratic invention of a first novel, which it is, but it never completely escapes the sense that Bro...
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review 1: I kind of couldn't wait to get done this book. It's not written in a way where you read it and are stopped by mesmerizing passages; I was not wowed by the author's ability to write beautiful passages, or lack thereof. I had a hard time relating to the headstrong, independent main...
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review 1: I liked the concept of this book, the topic and the characters, but it didn't read polished. It read like a diary of a teenager, but it was not positioned as such. It looks like a rough draft that needs a lot more work and translation is terrible. Russian is my native language an...
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review 1: La mia esperienza con le storie di fate non è esaltante.Dopo la serie Wings della Pike, che mi ha tramortita con una dolcezza stucchevole e situazioni assurde... Avevo temporaneamente accotonato ali brillanti and co.Elizabeth May con La cacciatrice di fate, mi sorprese in maniera...