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Additional authors

1. Gailītis, Margita

Description

1. 248 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Five-year-old Laura was born in one of Joseph Stalin's prison camps in Siberia. When the book opens, she and her parents are on their long journey back to Latvia, a country Laura knows only from the exuberant descriptions that whirled about the Gulag. Upon her arrival, however, she must come to terms with the conflicting images of the life she sees around her and the fairytale Latvia she grew up hearing about and imagining. Based on the author's life, and written in lush language that defies the narrative's many hardships, Five Fingers tells the story of a girl who moves between worlds in the hopes of finding a Latvia that she can call home"--

Uniform title

1. Pieci pirksti. English

Alternative title

1. Pieci pirksti.

Subject

1. Homecoming > Fiction
2. Psychological fiction
3. Concentration camp inmates > Fiction
4. Parent and child > Fiction
5. Latvia > Fiction
6. Mind and reality > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Psychological fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 17-2367

Note

1. "Originally published in Latvian by Mansards Publishing House as Pieci Pirksti in 2013"--Title page verso.

Author

1. Zālīte, Māra, author.

Title

1. Five fingers / Māra Zālīte ; translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis.

Publisher

1. Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Edition

1. First Dalkey Archive edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Gailītis, Margita, translator.

LCCN

1. 2016047017

ISBN

1. 9781628971699 (paperback alkaline paper)
2. 162897169X (paperback alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 17-2367