![]() ![]() ![]() 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.'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. 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. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. ![]() The story follows the mother’s battle with depression and her. Her narration is interspersed with that of her daughter, also unnamed. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. Soviet Milk follows the life of an unnamed doctor in Soviet governed Latvia. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. 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. ![]()
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