Baba Dunja's last love
By: Alina Bronsky ; translated from the German by Tim Mohr
Contributors: Mohr, Tim
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781609453336
Subjects: Older women; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986; Fiction
Work titles: Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe
Description: "Baba Dunja is a Chernobyl returnee. Together with a motley bunch of former neighbours, they set off to create a new life for themselves in the radioactive no-man's land. Geiger counter and irradiated forest fruits be damned, there in that abandoned patch of Earth they have everything they need. Terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter... rural bliss reigns, until one day a stranger turns up in the village, and the small settlement faces annihilation once again. With her trade-mark wry humour Bronsky tells the story of a community that shouldn't exist, and of a very unusual woman who late in life finds her own version of paradise. "--Publisher's website.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe.