Blogs in March 2018

White Shroud 30th March 2018

White Shroud is considered by many as the most important work of modernist fiction in Lithuanian. Drawing heavily on the author’s own refugee and immigrant experience, this psychological, stream-of-consciousness work tells the story of an émigré poet working as...

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The Fox on the Swing 30th March 2018

This hope-filled children’s book teaches young readers about family, happiness, and friendship. Complete with stunning illustrations, The Fox on the Swing was selected to the final of the Nami International Picture Book Illustration Contest and to the Bologna Children’s...

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Shadows on the Tundra 30th March 2018

In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she...

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The Green Crow 30th March 2018

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...

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Days of Grace 30th March 2018

Kareva is the most adored and beloved author in Estonia. Days of Grace spans over forty years of her poetic output, showing how the sustained depth and clarity of her poetry lies in her ability to create ambiguity and...

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