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The novel "Soviet Milk" tells the story of a woman, Dr. Ieva, who is forced to leave her home in the Soviet-ruled Baltics and live in a small village in Latvia. Dr. Ieva's daughter, also a doctor, tries to follow in her mother's footsteps, but is unable to do so due to the Soviet government's restrictions on her career. Meanwhile, Dr. Ieva's grandmother provides her granddaughter with love and support. Political change begins to happen in the Baltics, and Dr. Ieva and her daughter hope to return to their home country. "Soviet Milk" is a literary bestseller in the Baltics, and is now being published in English for the first time.
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 Publisher
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