Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena review – a blistering Latvian bestseller | Books | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/31/soviet-milk-by-nora-ikstena-review
Outre le fait que le livre a l’air d’être très intéressant, cette écrivaine nous fait l’honneur d’une visite sur notre île au milieu du fjord, nous pourrons discuter de cette œuvre.
A century has passed since the Baltic state of Latvia officially became a nation, and for half that time it was part of the Soviet Union. It’s a bitter history and there’s a sense in Nora Ikstena’s bestselling novel, about women versus the state, of a hard-won creative reckoning.
Running from the end of the second world war to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the novel – Ikstena’s 20th – is narrated in alternating sections by an unnamed mother and daughter. “My milk was bitter: the milk of incomprehension, of extinction. I protected my child from it,” says the mother, a fertility specialist whose medical career is blighted after she turns on the abusive husband of a childless woman who seeks her help during a research trip to Leningrad.