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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

Tim Mohr, Alina Bronsky

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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

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Darkly humorous saga of a manipulative matriarch.

If you enjoy a dose of dark humor wrapped in a rich cultural tapestry, "The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine" is your kind of read. Alina Bronsky offers a vibrant portrayal of Soviet life through the eyes of an unapologetically scheming grandmother, making you wince and laugh in equal measure. The familial bonds, albeit twisted and complex, are sure to captivate you with their raw depiction of survival and ambition.

  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Longlist (2010)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee for Fiction (2021)
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

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ISBN: 9781609450069
Publisher: Europa Editions
Date of Publication: 2011-04-26
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, Race, World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 3782 readers)

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Told with sly humor and an anthropologist's eye for detail, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine is the story of three unforgettable women whose destinies are tangled up in a family dynamic that is at turns hilarious and tragic. In her new novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive.
 

Darkly humorous saga of a manipulative matriarch.

If you enjoy a dose of dark humor wrapped in a rich cultural tapestry, "The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine" is your kind of read. Alina Bronsky offers a vibrant portrayal of Soviet life through the eyes of an unapologetically scheming grandmother, making you wince and laugh in equal measure. The familial bonds, albeit twisted and complex, are sure to captivate you with their raw depiction of survival and ambition.

  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Longlist (2010)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee for Fiction (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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