She is self-aggrandizing, delusional, and cruel. Rosa is one of the most detestable characters I′ve encountered in literature. Aminat is not as easily cowed as her mother, however, and the three are entwined in a destructive, subversive embrace. Rosa believes her immediately, for what man would be attracted to her ugly, dim-witted daughter? But for as much as she derides her daughter, Rosa loves her granddaughter and takes over raising her. One day her daughter, Sulfia, tells her that she dreamt about a man and is now pregnant.
It′s hard being the only intelligent, beautiful person around, but Rosa bears the burden. And she knows that without her, her family would be nothing. She knows that her granddaughter is smart and pretty, thanks to her care. She knows that her daughter is stupid and ugly and only has a husband thanks to her. A book that, after you finish it, you immediately want to start to read again.& & Stuttgarter Zeitung & Uplifting, surprising, spot on.Rosa knows everything. & Irony, subtle humor, fascinating characters. Max, over the course of the story, will appreciate that people& s questionable behaviour may often be motivated by sadness. Here the best-selling and internationally renowned author, while never abandoning her trademark and razor-sharp wit, tells a family story through a young boy& s eyes. While Max& s grandmother recalls the outrageously nasty Rosa from Bronsky& s best-selling book, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, this is a more tender and moving family portrait. Alina Bronsky writes of family dysfunction and machinations with a droll and biting humor, a tremendous ear for dialog, and a generous heart that is forgiving of human weakness. Everybody will have to learn to defend themselves from Max& s all-powerful grandmother.
When a child is born to Nina that is the spitting image of Max& s grandfather, things come to a hilarious if dramatic head. While he may be a dolt in his grandmother's eyes, Max is bright enough to notice that his stoic and taciturn grandfather has fallen hopelessly in love with their neighbor, Nina. His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an incompetent, clueless weakling since he was a child and she& d spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. When his grandmother& a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna& moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 From the acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine & a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience& (The New Yorker).
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