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One of the worst books I´ve ever read. The title and short synopsis suggest a novel about the migration of a young girl from former UdSSR to Vienna, but actually this is a coming-of-age-story like hundreds others. The story starts off well but very soon you can follow the growing up of a very unpleasing and not likeable at all girl, who is never willing to understand the words respect or consequence. It seems like Mischka could never overcome the fact of being the older daughter. The reality of migrants to europe before the fall of the Iron Curtain is just touched slightly here and there, but all in all its a not structured and not thought through story of an unthankful, manipulative and simply mean young girl around family members who are all consumed by their own unhappiness but are at least the slightest bit sympathetic and trying to connect to Mischka.
I truly can´t understand the genius everybody sees in Rabinowich, definitely not to recommend.
I truly can´t understand the genius everybody sees in Rabinowich, definitely not to recommend.
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