Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir?Why Peirene chose to publish this book:At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 19. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual.
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I honestly didn’t know this when I picked it up but it turns out that this is a Dragon Ball prequel?! (I hadn’t understood that the markings “DB-11, DB-10, etc.” at the start of each chapter stood for “Dragon Ball Minus”!) Then Toriyama takes a bizarre left turn in the last 50 pages. It’s 200 pages of pointless crappy manga. Jaco is an alien policeman who crash-lands on Earth, meets an inventor and a pop star stand-in, and goes on a series of unfunny, uninteresting “adventures”. Slump, Sand Land, and now Jaco the Galactic Patrolman - the more I realise that he’s unfortunately a one-hit wonder! That said, the more I read of his non-Dragon Ball work - Dr. Dragon Ball is probably my favourite comic ever so I have a lot of time for its creator, Akira Toriyama. |