Alina Bronsky Libri

Baba Dunja è tornata a casa. Le radiazioni nucleari non le hanno impedito di rimettere piede per prima nel paese natio (a due passi da Chernobyl). Qui, insieme a poche anime che si sono via via aggiunte, si tenta di ricominciare a vivere. Perché la vita è ancora bella, nonostante l'età e nonostante intorno ci siano frutti di bosco dalle forme strane, uccelli particolarmente chiassosi, ragni che tessono instancabili le loro tele e persino lo spirito di qualche morto che si affaccia in strada per una chiacchierata. Le giornate scorrono per il malato Petrov che legge poesie d'amore sulla sua amaca, per la corpulenta Marja che non sa dire addio al proprio gallo Konstantin, per Baba Dunja che scrive lettere alla figlia Irina, chirurgo in Germania, fino a quando uno straniero arriva in paese con la sua bambina e il tran tran della piccola comunità viene sconvolto.

Certo è meglio non incontrarli nella vita reale i cattivi, ma incontrarli nelle pagine di un libro può essere invece appassionante. La protagonista di questo romanzo della Bronsky è così. Crede sempre di agire per il meglio degli altri, e delle altre, figlia e nipote. E invece le strumentalizza, le manipola, non si ferma davanti a nessuna nefandezza. Mette la propria smisurata energia al servizio solo di se stessa e del suo interesse.

Lei è diversa da tutti La sua vita ha uno scopo Se lei è tua madre, tu chi sei? Juliana ha 15 anni e vive in una società rigidamente strutturata dove i Normali controllano tutto e si tengono rigorosamente lontano da coloro che si comportano in modo anticonvenzionale. Juliana frequenta il liceo, abita in un quartiere ordinatissimo e segue tutte le regole della Normalità. Suo padre, esempio di omologazione e sua madre, una pittrice per hobby e più originale, sono separati. All’improvviso la madre scompare, la casa è sottosopra e piena di polizia e il padre sembra stranamente tranquillo. Cosa succede? E perché Julie sente suo padre definire sua madre una fata, uno degli essere più temuti e disprezzati dalla società dei Normali? In una corsa contro il tempo Julie dovrà confrontarsi con una realtà ben diversa da quella in cui è cresciuta. Dove le cose e le persone non sono bianche o nere e dove la diversità, l’originalità sono fonti di ricchezza e non cose da combattere. Ma è pericoloso là fuori, violento e pieno di sorprese. Julie ritroverà sua madre? E troverà se stessa?

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.

A bittersweet and hilarious novel about a marriage whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended. Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, "comfortable" confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara. But when one morning she can't get up from bed anymore, everything changes. With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced to reinvent himself as a caregiver and house-husband, and become the caring partner he never was in all his years with Barbara. Little by little, Walter's rough facade begins to crumble--and with it his old certainties about his life and family.

Seventeen-year-old Sacha Naimann dreams of writing a novel about her mother and killing the man who murdered her, Sacha's stepfather Vadim, while struggling to care for her younger siblings and leave behind her painful childhood.

Told through the perspective of a young boy, this family story weaves irony and subtle humor into its narrative. The author, a bestselling and internationally acclaimed writer, introduces fascinating characters that leave a lasting impression. Readers often feel compelled to revisit the book immediately after finishing it, highlighting its engaging and thought-provoking nature.

An atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, a vivid portrait of youth under pressure, and a moving story about learning to love, this new novel from the author of Broken Glass Park is an irreverent look at the sometimes difficult work of self-acceptance. Badly disfigured as a result of an encounter with a dog, seventeen-year-old Marek begins attending a support group for young people with physical disabilities, which he dubs "the cripple group," led by an eccentric older man only known as The Guru. Marek is dismissive of the other members of the support group, seeing little connection between their misfortunes and his own. The one exception to this is Janne, the beautiful wheelchair-bound woman with whom he has fallen in love. When a family crisis forces Marek to face his demons, with or without the group, he finds himself in dire need of support. But the distance he has put between himself and The Guru's misshapen acolytes may well be too great to bridge. Just Call Me Superhero cements Alina Bronsky's reputation as one of her generation's most compelling and stylish young authors.

Bestseller-Autorin Alina Bronsky legt eine Komödie über zwei Menschen vor, die aus unterschiedlichen Welten stammen – und am Ende nicht mehr ohne einander sein wollen. Warmherzig, rasant und höchst unterhaltsam.Sie begegnen sich zum ersten Mal in einer Der hochbegabte Oscar ist 16, hat einen Adelstitel und ist noch nie mit der U-Bahn gefahren. Moni Kosinsky hat drei Enkel, mehrere Nebenjobs und liebt knalligen Lippenstift und hohe Absätze. Sie ist fest entschlossen, sich heimlich den Traum von einem Mathe-Studium zu erfüllen.Doch im Hörsaal wird Moni für eine Putzfrau gehalten und belächelt. Wie kommt sie dazu, sich für eines der schwierigsten Fächer überhaupt einzuschreiben? Und woher kennt sie den berühmtesten Professor der Uni?Bald muss nicht nur Oscar feststellen, dass Monis Verstand und Beharrlichkeit größer sind als ihre Wissenslücken. Denn Mathematik schert sich nicht um Fragen der Herkunft, des Alters und des Aussehens. Oscar dagegen kämpft mit dem Alltag und findet ausgerechnet in der warmherzigen Moni eine Vertraute, die seinem Leben eine entscheidende Wendung gibt. Bald verbindet die beiden Außenseiter eine Freundschaft, die niemand für möglich gehalten hätte. Ein leichtfüßiger, raffinierter, tragikomischer Roman über eine schillernde Heldin und eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft, die weit über Fragen nach der vierten Dimension und schlechtes Mensa-Essen hinaus durchs Studium und Leben trägt.

Ein Weihnachten, das alle(s) verändert ...»In meiner sowjetischen Kindheit gab es kein Weihnachtsfest. Ich musste erst angelernt werden. Inzwischen bin ich Vollprofi und kann für Beratungen gebucht werden. Außerdem haben wir die schönste Krippe der Welt.« – Alina BronskyPeter und Kathrin, Almut und Klaus waren einmal eng befreundet: Als ihre Kinder noch klein waren, waren die beiden Paare unzertrennlich. Doch nun sind die Söhne und Töchter längst aus dem Haus, und die einstigen Freunde haben sich aus den Augen verloren. Peter und Kathrin haben Klaus zuletzt auf Almuts Beerdigung vor ein paar Jahren gesehen. Ausgerechnet als Peter und Kathrin das erste Weihnachtsfest zu zweit planen, um dem üblichen Trubel der Festtage zu entkommen, meldet sich Klaus wieder bei ihnen: ob man nicht wieder Weihnachten zusammen verbringen könne. Das Paar ist widerwillig bereit, einem untröstlichen Witwer beizustehen. Als Peter und Kathrin jedoch im Wochenendhaus in der hessischen Provinz einen glücklich verliebten Klaus an der Seite der viel jüngeren Sharon antreffen, bricht ihre Welt zusammen. Dass Sharon als Einzige in der Runde Lust hat, Weihnachten auf die kitschigste Art zu zelebrieren, macht die Begegnung nicht leichter. Ein Weihnachten voller Verwicklungen und Offenbarungen nimmt seinen Lauf, dass alle vermeintlichen Selbstverständlichkeiten auf den Kopf stellt.