In this, her memoir, Valentīna Freimane talks about pre-war Paris and Berlin, about legendary film stars she has seen close…
The Baltics Riveter
The Birds of Paradise is the sequel to Māra Zālīte’s first biographical novel Five Fingers and is about her family’s return…
Māris Bērziņš’s The Taste of Lead takes place between 1939 and 1941 in Latvia. Although this is right at the start…
Nations are sometimes defined by borders, but more interestingly by language. Latvia is thus defined by a language spoken by…
Reading this book is like plunging head-first into deep water. You don’t know what awaits – either in the depths,…
When Jacob, a young, rather lonely city boy with a big imagination, learns he’s going to have to spend his…