Baba Dunja's Last Love Author:Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr (Translator) There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowoâalso known as Chernobyl -- but Baba Dunja has returned. And she’s brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start an... more »ew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with the almost 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter. Life is beautiful. But then a stranger turns up in the village, and once again the little idyllic settlement faces annihilation.« less