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Soviet Milk

By نورا إكستينا

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2019

  • رواية

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Under Soviet rule in Latvia, a brilliant doctor is denied the professional and personal life she imagined, and retreats from motherhood as the state’s pressure enters every part of the self. Her daughter, raised largely by grandparents, remains attached to life while struggling to understand her mother’s absence. Nora Ikstena’s intergenerational novel portrays occupation through the bodies of women, where milk, medicine and silence become charged signs of love and refusal. Originally written in Latvian as “Soviet Milk”, this is the Arabic edition published by Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House.

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