Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe

Posted on 03 November 2019 by Alina Bronsky

Baba Dunja ist eine Tschernobyl Heimkehrerin Wo der Rest der Welt nach dem Reaktorungl ck die tickenden Geigerz hler und die strahlenden Waldfr chte f rchtet, baut sich die ehemalige Krankenschwester mit Gleichgesinnten ein neues Leben auf Wasser gibt es aus dem Brunnen, Elektrizit t an guten Tagen und Gem se aus dem eigenen Garten Die V gel rufen im Niemandsland so laut wie nirgends sonst, die Spinnen weben verr ckte Netze, und manchmal kommt sogar ein Toter auf einen Plausch vorbei W hrend der sterbenskranke Petrov in der H ngematte Liebesgedichte liest, die Gavrilovs im Garten Schach spielen und die Melkerin Marja mit dem fast hundertj hrigen Sidorow anbandelt, schreibt Baba Dunja Briefe an ihre Tochter Irina, die Chirurgin bei der deutschen Bundeswehr ist Und an ihre Enkelin Laura Doch dann kommen Fremde ins Dorf und die Gemeinschaft steht erneut vor der Aufl sung. Download Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe By Alina Bronsky – kino-fada.fr Best book I ve read this year Baba Dunja is an old woman who returns to her village after a radiation accident She s strong,practical, and wise a deadly combination which thwarts an evil stranger bent on destroying his young daughter s life I loved this book for many reasons one of which was Bab...For some reason, I thought I d love this book but there wasn t enough of anything to love except the characters Baba Dunja s personality and stubbornness, diverse residents of her village, but nothingthan that, there was no plot, nothing made sense and many questions were left unanswered.One of the books on the shortlist of this year s International Dublin Literature Award, which caught my attention at the beginning and after I have learnedabout it, I realized that this is an interesting and unusual book that says a lot in just a few pages I confirmed this by reading it and further I realized that it is a very beautiful book, written by an author who has something special.The protagonist of the story who gives her name to the book, she is an elderly woman...In my experience, most of the time, shorter books make for some great reading experiences What sometimes big books fail to communicate, a short book does magnificently Baba Dunja s Last Love by Alina Bronsky does just that as a gem of a small book It just makes you sit back and take count of life in some of the most adverse situations and makes you see how far you have come and how it is all going to be okay or at least you can hope that it will all turn out okay So nowabout the In my experience, most of the time, shorter books make for some great reading experiences What sometimes big books fail to communicate, a short book does magnificently Baba Dunja s Last Love by Alina Bronsky does just that as a gem of a small book It just makes you sit back and take count of life in some of the most adverse situations and makes you see how far you have come and how it is all going to be okay or at least you can hope that it will...A very enjoyable and often fun read that could have been sad or even depressing Baba Dunja recounts village life in Tchernowo, a place that was abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear power disaster But a motley group of individuals returned and rebuild something resembling community Events interfere however.Alina Bronsky a pseudonym was born in the then Soviet Union and has lived since the early 1990s in Germany Her character s witty observation of her co villagers as much as Bronsky s A very enjoyable and often fun read that could have been sad or even depressing Baba Dunja recounts villag...So you live in the northern Ukrainian village of Tschernowo Your village has been evacuated because of its proximity to the nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl In spite of dire warnings from your physician daughter and government officials, you decide to move back to your village You prefer to live in your own home in your own village on your own terms and not worry about radioactive contamination You are a feisty octogenarian, fearless, full of grit, compassionate, kind, fiercely So you live in the northern Ukrainian village of Tschernowo Your village has been evacuated because of its proximity to the nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl In spite of dire warnings from your physician daughter and government officials, you decide to move back to your village You prefer to live in your own home in your own village on your own terms and not worry about radioactive contamination You are a feisty octogenarian, fearless, full of grit, compassionate, kind, fiercely independent, and fiercely determined Meet the delightful Baba Dunja in Baba Dunja s Last Love by Alina Bronsky, translated from the German by Tim Mohr Baba Dunja lives in her once abandoned village with a handful of elderly neighbors, all of whom lead quiet, simple lives, unfazed by the radiation that has seeped into their bones or into the contaminated, misshapen fruits and vegetables they grow and consume They form a small community, isolated from the outside world with occasional visits from reporters or fro...Wow Alina Bronsky, such a surprise It is the third book by this author I own, I had no intention of buying it damn you, Oxfam D , but I did it and I said to myself look, such a tiny book, if you don t like it, there really is no harm done.I L O V E D I T While reading it, I checked it onand saw that the English translation is on sale, for like the half of the price of the German original edition, and I was thinking of buying it for my friends who read English Most of you know what Wow Alina Bronsky, such a surprise It is the third book by this author I own, I had no intention of buying it damn you, Oxfam D , but I did it and I said to myself...Novel set in CHERNOBYL..return of the walking dead. This review first appeared on our blog is situated in the north of Ukraine, near the Belarus and Russian borders It would doubtless have remained as obscure as it was were it not for the nuclear accident of 1986 when radiation blighted the neighbourhood and spread from there right across Europe The word still sends a chill down many a spine Baba Dunja was one of the inhabitants at the Novel set in CHERNOBYL..return of the walking dead. This review first appeared on our blog is situated in the north of Ukraine, near the Belarus and Russian borders It would doubtless have remained as obscure as it was were it not for the nuc...After an extended run of fiction on the fluffy side it was delightful to stumble upon Baba Dunja s Last Love For weeks now I ve been giving myself pep talks on the importance of reading literature, of finding books of substance to nurture my brain These talks didn t result in a change in my reading habits due to the fact that all the books that sounded like the sort of brain expanding writing I thought I should be reading unfortunately seemed sodull And then I found this thin green tome on After an extended run of fiction on the fluffy side it was delightful to stumble upon Baba Dunja s Last Love For weeks now I ve been giving myself pep talks on the importance of reading literature, of finding books of substance to nurture my brain These talks didn t result in a change in my reading habits due to the fact that all the books that sounded like the sort of brain expanding writing I thought I should be reading unfortunately seemed sodull And then I found this thin green tome on the new books shelf at my local library Honestly I misread the book jacket, or else my fluff filled brain filled in details it expected to see I was expecting a bit of madcapped man hunting from the octogenarian set, with the unusual background of a radioactive village in the Uk...A charming, beautifully written little book that joined an exclusive club universally enjoyed by the members of my book club.The plot is simple, but character development is rich What could have been very sad or depressing was instead entertaining and optimistic I ll be readingby this author.

German
03 November 2019

Alina Bronsky