Books from Latvia
24 popular latvian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Latvia.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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The Green Crow by Kristine Ulberga EN
Description:
Institutionalized in an asylum, a woman with a record of hallucinations commits her life story to paper. She records, from the age of six, her earliest memories of a drunken and abusive father, the strange men her mother introduced to repair the family, the imaginary forest where she would run for safety and, of course, the giant talking green crow who appeared when she most needed him. The green crow is a conceited, boisterous creature who follows the novel's nameless protagonist throughout her life, until the day that its presence begins to embarrass her. Confined to a tedious domestic life,... continue
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The River by Laura Vinogradova EN
Description:
Rute is no stranger to displacement and loss. As a child, she and her older sister, Dina, were subject to their mother's romantic whims. Then, when the sisters were in their late twenties, Dina disappeared. Rute has become a husk of her former self, going through the motions in work, life, and love, composing daily letters to Dina in the hopes they'll one day see each other again. When the sisters' biological father, Jūle, dies, Rute unexpectedly inherits his country property. Curious about this man she's never really known. Once in the countryside, she meets Matilde, the young, single mother ... continue
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Walking Since Daybreak by Modris Eksteins EN
Description:
Part history, part autobiography, Eksteins relates the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II through personal stories from his family. Photos and map.