Books by Gina Ochsner
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English
review 1: I enjoyed this charming, darkly comic, and magic realist book about post-USSR Russia. The characters are lovable (well, most of them are), and Ochsner shows how even in a world of poverty and rubbish heaps, where survival itself is a kind of miracle, the human heart still has th...
language
English
review 1: I appreciate magical realism and lyrical prose as much as the next person, but after a point there needs to be something substantive for the reader to hold onto - I could have walked away from this book at any point while reading and ended up where I did after slogging through 37...