Nora Ikstena Soviet Milk Roman uit Letland

Nora Ikstena Soviet Milk Roman uit Letland

Soviet Milk

  • Schrijfster: Nora Ikstena (Letland)
  • Soort boek: sociale roman, Letse roman
  • Origineel: Mātes piens (2015)
  • Engelse vertaling: Margita Gailitis
  • Uitgever: Peirene Press
  • Verschenen: 2018
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Nora Ikstena

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

This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir?

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