The setting for Glesum, Rasa Aškinytė’s fourth novel and first work of historical fiction, is the Amber Road of the…
The Baltics Riveter
In this brilliant debut the author carefully arranges texts like notes or snapshots, inspired by life in 1990s Lithuania. The period…
First published in 2004 The Music Teacher (‘Vardas tamsoje’ – ‘Name in the Dark’, if I’m correct) was made into…
The title Magnetic North is taken from a poem Tomas Venclova, a towering figure in Lithuanian and world literature, wrote…
In June 1941, Stalin ordered the mass deportation of Lithuanian citizens to remote regions of the Soviet Union. Thousands died…
A boy called Paul and his satisfyingly odd parents live in a tree. On his way home from the baker’s…