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**AD-TEAM** · 09-11-2024, 09:03 PM

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Quote:"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.

Category:Fiction, Literature, Awards, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, German Fiction, Family & Friendship - Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Asian Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, 21st Century German Fiction, Family Life - Fiction, Mothers & Daughters - Fiction, Pregnancy & Birth - Fiction, Russians - Fiction, Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2011

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