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Broken Glass Park: A Novel

Alina Bronsky
Translated by Tim Mohr
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Broken Glass Park: A Novel

Alina Bronsky
Translated by Tim Mohr
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  • Published date: Apr 09, 2010
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 221
  • Publisher: Europa Editions
  • ISBN: 9781933372969
  • Dimensions: 5.28" W x 0.66" L x 8.25" H
Russian-bornAlina Bronksy is the author of Broken Glass Park (Europa, 2010); The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Europa, 2011), named a Best Book of 2011 by The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and Publisher's Weekly ; and Just Call Me Superhero (Europa, 2014). Tim Mohrspent the 1990s as a club DJ in Berlin and much of the next decade as a staff editor at Playboy magazine. He is the translator of Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann, which won the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007, and Wetlands, by Charlotte Roche. He is currently at work on his own book, a history of the punk music scene in East Germany.
Praise for Broken Glass Park What a literary creation! No wonder this book was such a sensation in Europe." -Shelf Awareness "A riveting debut." -Publishers Weekly (starred) "Bronsky writes with a gritty authenticity and unputdownable propulsion." - Vogue "Bronsky instinctively understands that the way to a reader's heart is through great characters." -Library Journal "A vivid depiction of contemporary adolescence under pressure." - Boston Globe "Dealing with universal themes in the context of very modern problems, Bronsky adds an exciting new voice to the literary world." - The Daily Beast "A sharp and funny first novel." - The Minneapolis Star Tribune "Surprising, poetic, extremely well-crafted... recalls the narrative art of Zadie Smith." -Kolner Stadtrevue "The most exciting new arrival of the season." - Der Spiegel "An explosive debut." - Emma Magazine "Youthful, fast-paced, at times sad, never sugarcoated. Broken Glass Park tells the story of a marvelous reawakening." - Modern Zeiten "Playful, audacious and brimming with verve... A gripping read." - Book Reporter (Germany) "The literature industry has a new prodigy! Bronsky is an immense talent." - Focus (Germany) Praise for Alina Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine "Bronsky's great gift is humor." -The Los Angeles Times "Mordantly funny." -The San Francisco Chronicle "A masterful study in delusion." - The Financial Times "A very funny and a very dark black comedy." - Library Journal (starred review) "[Rose is] one of the most fascinating women in the world." -The Millions "What begins as a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience." -The New Yorker "Bronsky's lean writing style . . . propels the reader from page to page." -Shelf Awareness "I plan to . . . read whatever comes next from this important new literary voice." -Ms. Magazine Praise for Alina Bronsky "Alina Bronsky writes with a gritty authenticity and unputdownable propulsion." - Vogue "Bronsky instinctively understands that the way to a reader's heart is through great characters." -Library Journal "Bronsky's great gift is humor." - The Los Angeles Times "

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