Alina Bronsky's first novel,
Broken Glass Park, was a finalist for one of Europe's most celebrated literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was hailed by
Publishers Weekly as a "riveting debut," while the
Boston Globe described it as "a vivid depiciton of contemporary adolescence under pressure."
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, nominated for the prestigious German Book Prize, is her second novel. She lives in Germany.
Tim Mohr is a former Berlin club DJ whose previous translations include
Broken Glass Park, Charlotte Roche's
Wetlands, and Dorothea Dieckmann's
Guantanamo, for which he won the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007. He collaborated with Duff McKagan on
It's So Easy (and other lies), McKagan's forthcoming memoir.