'Latvia is a country we have heard almost nothing about since its separation from the Soviet Union. Soviet Milk, her most recent novel, won the 2015 Annual Latvian Literature Award (LALIGABA) for Best Prose. She has won numerous awards, such as the Order of the Three Stars for services to literature and the Baltic Assembly Prize. She published her first novel, Celebration of Life, in 1998 and has written over twenty books since. On her return to the Baltics she helped establish the Latvian Literature Centre. She studied at the University of Latvia before moving to New York. Nora Ikstena was born in 1969 in Riga, Latvia. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

Yet just beneath the surface lies something far more positive: the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide - love, and the desire for life.' Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press Publisher Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir? 'At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 19. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter.

The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.

The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.

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