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Alina Bronsky (a pseudonym) was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Broken Glass Park, nominated for one of Europe's most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, was her first novel.
Her second novel The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Favorite Read of the Year by both The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Just Call Me Superhero (2014) is her third novel.
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I've heard that you submitted your manuscript by
post and received positive responses after only a week.
What was your reaction to these responses?
I was so happy. I couldn't believe it. I felt
like Cinderella when she is invited to the
ball. At first, I didn't tell anyone about it
because I thought I was only dreaming.
Are there similarities between you and Sascha?
Some people think so. They say I talk like
Sascha sometimes. But I can't see it. Sascha
has much more courage and more ambitions
than I. I would like to have her strength and
also some other characteristics of hers, but
under better circumstances of course.
I love Sascha's personality: she's so proud and
skeptical, yet innocent and fragile. So determined to
assure herself a better future, so courageous. She's a
real heroine, isn't she? Which is a rarity nowadays.
Thank you. I like her very much, too. And
you are completely right; she is also a very
ambivalent person. But I don't think she is a
rarity. I've met real girls who are no less
courageous than her.
She hates men, but at the same time she is
mesmerized by Volker and Felix, which
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