The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
Tim Mohr
(Translator)
Description
"In this acidly funny novel" of life in Soviet Russia, "a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience" (The New Yorker).
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A German Book Award Finalist
A Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the Year
When Rosa Achmetowna discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Sulfia, is pregnant, she tries every bizarre home remedy there is to thwart the pregnancy. But despite her best efforts, the baby girl Aminat is born--and immediately wins Rosa's heart. The dark-eyed Aminat is a Tartar through and through, just like Rosa, and the devious grandmother wastes no time in plotting to steal her away from the woefully inept Sulfia.
When Aminat, now a wild and willful teenager, catches the eye of a sleazy German cookbook writer researching Tartar cuisine, Rosa is quick to broker a deal that will guarantee all three women a passage out of the Soviet Union. But as soon as they are settled in the West, the dysfunctional ties that bind mother, daughter, and grandmother begin to fray.
Product Details
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Publish Date | April 26, 2011 |
| Pages | 262 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781609450069 |
| Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Tim Mohr is a former Berlin club DJ whose previous translations include Broken Glass Park, Charlotte Roche's Wetlands, and Dorothea Dieckmann's Guantanamo, for which he won the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007. He collaborated with Duff McKagan on It's So Easy (and other lies), McKagan's forthcoming memoir.
Reviews
"Bronsky's great gift is humor."
--The Los Angeles Times
"Mordantly funny."
--The San Francisco Chronicle
"A masterful study in delusion."
--The Financial Times
--Library Journal (starred review) "[Rosa is] one of the most fascinating women in the world."
--The Millions
"What begins as a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience."
--The New Yorker
"Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious, disturbing, and always irreverent blitz."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"I plan to . . . read whatever comes next from this important new literary voice."
--Ms. Magazine
"Bronsky's lean writing style . . . propels the reader from page to page."
--Shelf Awareness
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--Vogue
"What begins as a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience." The New Yorker
"Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious, disturbing, and always irreverent blitz." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A rich, funny and unspeakably delicious novel" Bookslut
"Bronsky's great gift is humor." Los Angeles Times"
"Bronsky's great gift is humor."--"Los Angeles Times"
"A rich, funny and unspeakably delicious novel"--Bookslut
"Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious, disturbing, and always irreverent blitz."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Bronsky''s great gift is humor."--"Los Angeles Times"
"A rich, funny and unspeakably delicious novel"
"Bronsky''s great gift is humor."
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