Inga Abele: Paisums (High Tide)
The latest addition to my website is Inga Abele's Paisums (High Tide). Unusually, this story is told more or less in reverse order, i.e. it starts with our heroine, Ieva,…
Zigmunds Skujiņš: Kailums (Nakedness)
The latest addition to my website is Zigmunds Skujiņš' Kailums (Nakedness). Our hero is Stanis Draiska who has just completed his military service in Latvia in the 1960s. During that…
Nora Ikstena: Mātes piens (Soviet Milk)
The latest addition to my website is Nora Ikstena's Mātes piens (Soviet Milk). This is a superb novel about three generation of women in Latvia, struggling with the oppressive Soviet…
Zigmunds Skujiņš: Vīrietis labākajos gados (A Man in His Prime)
The latest addition to my website is Zigmunds Skujiņš' Vīrietis labākajos gados (A Man in His Prime). This is one of two novels written by Skujiņš translated into English from…
Riga/Copenhagen
We have just returned from our continuing tour of East European capitals - the third this year and the fifth in the past two years - with a visit to…