![]() ![]() ![]() 'Nora Ikstena is proving that Latvia is speaking in a bold and original voice.' Rosie Goldsmith, broadcaster and reviewer 'Nora Ikstena's fiction opens up new paths not only for Latvian literature in English translation but for English literature itself. Soviet Milk is an excellent novel that traces the lives of a mother and daughter in Latvia in the second half of the twentieth century. 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. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir? Why Peirene chose to publish this book: At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 19. This novel considers the effects of Soviet. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. ![]() ![]() 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. Summary: The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. ![]()
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