Meine russische Schwiegermutter und andere Katastrophen

In her bestseller "My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Disasters," journalist Alexandra Fröhlich depicts a hilariously funny love and family story between Germans and Russians with dry humor. Based on the author's own experiences, it is a lovingly observed and charmingly exaggerated novel about the clash of two cultures. Can you stop a tsunami? An avalanche? A hurricane? It is just as hopeless to convince Paula's Russian mother-in-law of the opposite when she decides to secretly bury a two-hundred-pound Newfoundland dog in a Hamburg cemetery. For Darya is as stubborn as a Russian tank and as crazy as a rabid ferret. Logic won’t help here; only begging works—sometimes. If it weren't for Darya's son Artjom, Paula would have fled long ago.