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Alina Bronsky

Biography

Alina Bronsky

The Daily Beast calls Alina Bronsky "an exciting new voice in the literary world." Bronsky is the author of such novels as BARBARA ISN'T DYING, BROKEN GLASS PARK and THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE, which was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia, Bronsky now lives in Berlin.

Alina Bronsky

Books by Alina Bronsky

Barbara Isn’t Dying
written by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr - Fiction, Humor

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.