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    Just Call Me Superhero

    By Alina Bronsky

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    An atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, a vivid portrait of youth under pressure, and a moving story about learning to love, this new novel from the author of Broken Glass Park is an irreverent look at the sometimes difficult work of self-acceptance.

    Badly disfigured as a result of an encounter with a dog, seventeen-year-old Marek begins attending a support group for young people with physical disabilities, which he dubs “the cripple group,” led by an eccentric older man only known as The Guru. Marek is dismissive of the other members of the support group, seeing little connection between their misfortunes and his own. The one exception to this is Janne, the beautiful wheelchair-bound woman with whom he has fallen in love. When a family crisis forces Marek to face his demons, with or without the group, he finds himself in dire need of support. But the distance he has put between himself and The Guru’s misshapen acolytes may well be too great to bridge.
     
    Just Call Me Superhero cements Alina Bronsky’s reputation as one of her generation’s most compelling and stylish young authors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropa Editions
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781609452414
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    Just Call Me Superhero
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    Alina Bronsky

    Alina Bronksy is the author of Broken Glass Park (Europa, 2010); The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Europa, 2011), named a Best Book of 2011 by The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly; Just Call Me Superhero (Europa, 2014), Baba Dunja’s Last Love (Europa, 2016), and My Grandmother’s Braid (Europa, 2021). Born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia, Bronsky now lives in Berlin.

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      Mir hat das Buch nicht gefallen. Die Idee an sich war interessant. Was die Autorin daraus hat werden lassen, nicht. Nicht nur, dass immer wieder Sätze verdreht waren oder Worte gefehlt haben, die Geschichte an sich war einfach unausgegoren. Mittendrin schien es so, als wäre der Autorin die Puste ausgegangen, also hat sie ihren ganzen Plot über Bord geworfen und mit neuen Nebenfiguren und neuem Plot von vorne gestartet. Nur, um dann wieder auf den letzten Seiten zum ersten Plot zurück zu kommen und diesem ein Ende zu verpassen, das gar keinen Sinn ergibt.

      Das war wirklich nichts.