Judith+Guzman-Montes


 * AUTHOR: ** Bronsky, Alina


 * TITLE: ** //The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine // (Fiction)


 * PUBLICATION DATE: ** 2010


 * NUMBER OF PAGES: ** 262


 * GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING: ** Russia


 * TIME PERIOD: ** Soviet Union


 * SERIES: **n/a


 * PLOT SUMMARY: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The story of three Tartar generations is told from the perspective of the matriarch, Rosa Achmetowna. After her daughter, Sulfia, gives birth to granddaughter Aminat, Rosa works on separating the little girl from her “incompetent” mother and, eventually, arranges their immigration to Germany with the help of a German cookbook writer and Tartar recipes.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SUBJECT HEADINGS: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dysfunctional families, Immigration, Cooking, Germany, Russia, Strong Female.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">APPEAL: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> darkly humorous, fast-paced, internal dialogue, strong characterization


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SIMILAR AUTHORS: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Muriel Barbery, Rebecca Connell, Siobhan Dowd, Jane Gardam

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AUTHOR: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Frazier, Ian


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TITLE: **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Travels in Siberia //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Nonfiction)


 * BRIEF SUMMARY**: A humorous record of the author’s adventures in the Asiatic region of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. The history, politics, science and economy of Siberia is interwoven through tales of cars breaking down, mosquito attacks and meetings with true Russian characters.