Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky
Government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown (a stone s throw from Chernobyl) be damned Baba Dunja is going home. And she s taking a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With strangely misshapen forest fruits to spare and the town largely to themselves, they have pretty much everything they need and they plan to start anew.The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with the almost 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter. Life is beautiful. That is until one day a stranger turns up in the village and once again the little idyllic settlement faces annihilation.
From the prodigiously talented Alina Bronsky, this is a return to the iron-willed and infuriatingly misguided older female protagonist that she made famous with her unforgettable Russian matriarch, Rosa Achmetowna, in The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine. Here she tells the story of a post-meltdown settlement, and of an unusual woman, Baba Dunja, who, late in life, finds her version of paradise.
Alina Bronksy is the author of Broken Glass Park (Europa, 2010), The Hottest Dishes of Tartar Cuisine (Europa, 2011), which The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly named a Best Book of 2011; and Just Call Me Superman (Europa, 2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609453336 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609453336 |
| Title | Baba Dunja's Last Love |
| Author | Alina Bronsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Year published | 2016-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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