Тихая Балтия: Латышский дневник

by Anatoly Pristavkin

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin (Russian: Анатолий Игнатьевич Приставкин)was a prominent Russian writer and public figure.

His mother died when he was nine and his father died in World War II, leaving Anatoly orphan. After spending several years in Soviet orphanages, Anatoly Pristavkin had to start working from the age of 14 onwards, and had various jobs. He started a career as a writer in 1961 and later became a lecturer at a university. Pristavkin became famous in the USSR for his novel «Ночевала тучка золотая…» translated into English as "The Inseparable Twins", which describes the miserable conditions of orphans' life in an orphanage near Moscow during the years of World War II and the re-settlement to Chechnya in 1944, as Chechens had been deported. The book became part of school curriculum in the Perestroika-era USSR. Books by Pristavkin were translated to many languages.

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