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With dance shoes in Siberian snows, by Sandra Kalniete ; translated by Margita Gailītis ; edited and with a foreword by Valters Nollendorfs

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With dance shoes in Siberian snows, by Sandra Kalniete ; translated by Margita Gailītis ; edited and with a foreword by Valters Nollendorfs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364)

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contains biographical information

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

With dance shoes in Siberian snows

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

276514862

Responsibility statement

by Sandra Kalniete ; translated by Margita Gailītis ; edited and with a foreword by Valters Nollendorfs

Summary

"Sandra Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is a story of human survival, and it has become the most translated Latvian book in recent history."--Book jacket

Table Of Contents

"We are sitting-- " -- Family ties -- Prelude -- Occupation -- Deportation -- My grandfather Jānis -- Vyatlag -- War in Latvia -- "I beg you--shoot me or exonerate me" -- Forced settlement and starvation -- Changes -- My grandmother Emilija -- Family member of a bandit -- "My mother will wash my hair in rainwater" -- "We won't give birth to any more slaves" -- The long way home -- "Dear Voldiņ!" -- Notes -- Time spent in deportation -- Chronology of events -- Bibliography -- Acronyms and abbreviations used in the book -- Pronunciation of Latvian

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