Books by Olga Grjasnowa
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review 1: I love immigrant tales of the displaced. Likewise, stories of burgeoning adulthood in a mixed-up world is right up my alley & this compelling debut by a twenty-something & female Azerbaijani Jew whose family had fled from ethnic cleansing to Germany is along those lines & themes....
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review 1: Gut, ich geb's zu: Ich habe mir dieses Buch gekauft, weil mir der Titel gefallen hat. "Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt" - das fand ich sehr poetisch und wohlklingend und hoffte auf ebensolche Prosa.Brrr. Weit gefehlt. Poesie und Wohlklang der Sprache sind wohl das letzte, w...
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review 1: Russian literature always has me in my head for weeks after interacting with it, this book is no exception. It played with me on several levels. First is my fascination with language. How something so abstract is so fundamental to humanity. How it unites us and divides us all at ...