The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine Quotes

“I had tried to teach her that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. That nobody should be able to tell when you were uncertain. That you shouldn't show it when you loved someone. And that you smiled with particular affection at someone you hated.”
― Alina Bronsky, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

“Communism, my dear," I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while”
― Alina Bronsky, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

“I read how Aminat had grown up in a Soviet ghetto without a father, just her mother’s ever-changing men. How she had starved and had been beaten for being such a disobedient child. How finally she had been sold to a German pedophile by her grandmother in exchange for him marrying her mother, and how she landed in Germany as a result. I read and read, but there was nothing about me. Typical.”
― Alina Bronsky, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine: A Novel

“Einem Kind die Erziehung zu verweigern grenzte in meinen Augen an Misshandlung.”
― Alina Bronsky, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine