Books set in Latvia (25)
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Rok 1992 w Chochmie, nadmorskim kurorcie na zachodzie Łotwy. Na placu Akacjowym zbierają się wszyscy mieszkańcy, by obejrzeć, jak z piedestału jest strącany pomnik Lenina.
Tak zaczyna się opowieść o fikcyjnym miasteczku snuta ustami jej mieszkańców. Chochmy nie ma na mapie, a jednocześnie jest wszędzie tam, gdzie postkomunistyczna historia odcisnęła swoje piętno. Tutaj może zdarzyć się nawet najbardziej absurdalna rzecz, a przy tym wszystko jest prawdziwe i można by o tym przeczytać w codziennej prasie.
Zebrane w tej książce historie to osobne opowiadania, jednak razem tworzą one ... continue
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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
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*A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling' Guardian 'Part detective story, part family history, part probing inquiry into how best to reckon with the horrors of a previous century . . . Astonishing' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain 'Outstanding' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline and East West Street ___ To probe the past is to submit the memory of one's ancestors to a certain kind of t... continue
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Doom 94 is Jonevs' debut novel, published first as Jelgava 94 in Latvia in 2013 and was quickly proved to be a big hit and bestseller. Translated into 11 languages already, it is here for the first time in English. The story is set in the 1990s in the Latvian city of Jelgava and looks at the burgeoning craze during this decade for the alternative culture of heavy metal music. Jonevs takes the reader deep inside the world of music, combining the intimate diary of a youngster trying to find himself by joining a subculture, as well as a skilful, detailed, and almost documentary-like depiction of ... continue
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Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis EN
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David Bezmozgis, the writer who brought us the “pointed, emotionally resonant tales” (The Globe and Mail) of Natasha and Other Stories, brings us a new collection, his first in more than a decade. In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal where he discovers new designs on the past in “How it Used to Be.” A grandfather’s Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in “Little Rooster.” In “Roman’s Song,” Roman’s desire to help a new immigrant brings him into... continue
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In the Shadow of Death by Rūdolfs Blaumanis EN
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Rūdolfs Blaumanis's 1899 short story masterpiece, based on a contemporary newspaper account, tells of several fishermen lost at sea after the ice floe on which they work calves off and drifts away rapidly. One by one, the thirteen men and a boy must deal with the creeping reality that they may not see the mainland -- or their loved ones -- again. There is fish to eat, and two horses if necessary, but the very surface of the floe is eroding steadily ... and the nights are cold and terrible. Without ever moralising or over-elaborating, Blaumanis coolly and efficiently observes the state of each ... continue
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