Kommunalka Child
Author | : Nanda Milbreta |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2023-06-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781398465053 |
ISBN-13 | : 1398465054 |
Rating | : 4/5 (054 Downloads) |
Download or read book Kommunalka Child written by Nanda Milbreta and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine months after she was conceived as a way to contribute to population growth, just like every other Soviet kid, Kommunalka Child was harvested from a cabbage patch. She was brought up in a bilingual family in a communal apartment in Riga. As she was searching for a place in the world, the Soviet way of life slowly collapsed in the face of Western luxuries. Kommunalka Child takes its time-travellers onboard and triggers the reader’s personal memories and senses of smell, taste and touch. The cinematic storytelling in these funny, touching, embarrassing and absurd illustrated micro-memoirs reveals what life was like in the last decade of the Soviet Union, all through the eyes of a Latvian child.