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Baba Dunja's Last Love
Baba Dunja's Last Love
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April 15, 2020
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May 15, 2020
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Daisy
Jan 22, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: ukraine, favorites-2nd-place, chernobyl, aroundtheworld2021
So far this is my favorite book by Alina Bronsky. I've read three so far and I'm on my fourth. ...more
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Julie Griffin
Mar 10, 2022 added it
This lovely, warm novel packs a lot into a very short read. We follow a very likeable elderly woman, Baba, as she follows her daily return in rural Russia near the Belarus and Ukraine borders. A retired nurse, she gets up to argue with her neighbor's noisy rooster sitting on her fence, cooks soup, and caretakes her elderly neighbors. A typical rural life, but gets happens to be in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear plant. She and all of her neighbors, elderly men and women all, have cho ...more
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Terri
Jan 28, 2018 marked it as around-the-world
Shelves: iran-fiction
Corinna
Oct 14, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Jun 27, 2019 rated it it was amazing
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Apr 09, 2020 marked it as to-read
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