A review by melanieapril
Scherbenpark by Alina Bronsky

5.0

Two things. 1. It's been a long time since I read a book in German simply "for fun" and not for my studies, and... 2. It's been an even longer time since I read work of contemporary German literature that I so thoroughly enjoyed. Scherbenpark (Broken Glass Park) is a classic coming-of-age story. In the States I bet it would have been marketed (not unwisely) as young adult fiction, whereas here in Germany it has been advertised as Migrationsliteratur. Both categories apply. Although Sascha - the novel's protagonist - is a modern-day, Russian-German immigrant, her first-person narration reminds me a great deal of The Hunger Games' Katniss. Apparently there is already an English translation of the novel, and I would recommend it to anyone.