The Hottest Dishes of Tartar Cuisine
Rosalinda is the best grandmother in the world, not to mention the best mother, wife, hostess, organiser, and best-looking woman ever. What is more, she is a Tartar who grew up in an orphanage, lives in the Soviet Union, and knows how to look after herself. Her husband Kalganov is sadly inadequate, as is her daughter Sulfia. The one fails to abuse his position as a worker’s representative to Rosalinda’s satisfaction; the other is ‘scrawny’, timid, and far too sensibly dressed. Both live in mortal fear of the monstrous Rosalinda, who can’t understand why no one appreciates her ‘help’.
At last, when seventeen-year-old Sulfia gives birth to a daughter, Rosalinda finds someone worthy of her efforts. Rosalinda soon takes over the little girl Animat’s upbringing and everything – of course – goes swimmingly until one day Sulfia moves out of their shared apartment and takes her child with her. A monumental battle between the two over Animat begins in earnest.
Alina Bronsky was born in 1978 and was a medical student, advertising copywriter and the editor of a daily newspaper until the day she sent a manuscript to three publishers and immediately sold her first book. That novel Scherbenpark (Broken Glass Park), was among the most acclaimed debut novels of 2008 and was nominated for various awards, including the German Juvenile Literature Award. Her second novel, Die schärfsten Gerichte der tatarischen Küche (The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine), was longlisted for the German Book Award. Rights to Bronsky’s novels have been sold to more than fifteen countries.
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