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? 'At first
glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship
set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 1969 and 1989. 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
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