You escape, she dreams of revenge and is smarter than all the others. In the debut novel of the Russian-German author Alina Bronsky is a young woman’s battle through life – with wit and quite a lot of anger in the belly.
“Sometimes I think I’m the Only one in our neighborhood that still has sensible dreams. I have two, and for no I need to feel ashamed. I want to kill Vadim. And I want to write a book about my mother.”
Who’s telling in schnodderigem tone of voice, almost casually of murder plans, is Sascha. The 17-Year-old lives in a high-rise estate on the outskirts of Frankfurt. Most of the residents like they are Russian immigrants. In this “shards of the Park,” as all call her “Russian ghetto”, although it has a good view on the Skyline of the big city, but it is not one of them.
Alina Bronsky was born in Russia. She emigrated at the beginning of the 90s to Germany
Overdose Of Reality
Sascha at the very least. The mother is dead, and the stepfather is in jail for it. Before the eyes of their children, he killed her and her new friend. Now the 17-Year-old scenarios, designs, as you can let the hated Vadim for his deeds atone: to poison, shoot, kill?
But this snotty Brat is not a Russian avenging angel. Rather, it is an overworked big sister to two younger siblings. Your bluntness is a tank to protect your insides.
Anywhere you is one of them. Neither you accept the testosterone loaded macho in their settlement, yet the rich toffs on their private, Catholic high school. There they landed, thanks to their giftedness. Out of their cleverness, contempt flashing for one and all.
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DW-literature-expert Sabine Kieselbach on “shards of glass Park” by Alina Bronsky
Fear of the Weak
The Russian-German author Alina Bronsky made with “glass Park” is a stormy debut. You played very consciously with the clichés: of Course there are nasty Russians gangs and border moronic neo-Nazis, of course, the liter of vodka is flowing. However, your characters do not become caricatures.
This is mainly due to the harsh, authentic tone of voice. It is this typical “Bronsky Beat”, the author strikes in her first novel, and will later be in all of your books.
“Fear not those who feel weak, I think. Because it may be that you want to feel one day is strong and you’ll never recover.”
After a brawl with a semi-strong feeling Sasha is the first Time something like fear. A Warning Signal! Fearlessness, as you noted, it can be fatal. So, like once for her mother. The alcoholic man is never serious, until he shot her in a drunken stupor.
In the adaptation of the novel of 2013 convinced Jasna Fritzi Bauer in the role of the angry-vulnerable Sascha
Alina Bronsky is not about pity or social indictment. It’s about anger.Sometimes the only Chance to escape the drabness of his own life is in this fury.
Alina Bronsky: “Body Park” (2008), Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag
Alina Bronsky was born in 1978 in today’s Yekaterinburg for the world. With her family she moved at the beginning of the 1990s, after Germany, she spent her youth in Marburg and Darmstadt. As a writer and mother of four children, she lives with the actor Ulrich Noethen in Berlin. “Shards of the Park” was nominated in the category “young adult book” for the German youth literature prize in 2009, as well as for the aspects of the literature prize. The novel was published as a theater piece and was made into a movie with Jasna Fritzi Bauer in the lead role.