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With dance shoes in Siberian snows
Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos. English
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- Creator
- by Sandra Kalniete ; translated by Margita Gailītis ; edited and with a foreword by Valters Nollendorfs
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Dalkey Archive edition
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009
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- 367 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781564785459, 1564785459
- OCLC
- ocn276514862
- Originally published in Latvian: Rīga : Atēna, c2001.
- Series statement on jacket.
- Translated from the Latvian.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364).
- "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