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Baba Dunja's Last Love

Alina Bronsky

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#2559 of 8,085 books · #1103 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2018).

A defiant woman and her colorful neighbors reclaim their homes in Chernobyl in this enthralling story of humor, tragedy, and triumph. There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowo—also known as Chernobyl—but Baba Dunja has returned. And she's brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start anew. The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with the almost 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter. Life is beautiful. But then a stranger turns up in the village, and once again the little idyllic settlement faces annihilation.

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Publisher
Europa Editions
ISBN-13
9781609453404
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Aging and resilienceCommunity and found familyLife after disaster (Chernobyl)

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