Zivile’s Comments (group member since Mar 24, 2013)

Zivile’s comments from the Lietuva / Lithuania group.

http://www.audioknygos.lt/78-lietuvis...

The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature attempts to reflect the transition of Lithuanian literature since the beginning of the twentieth century, when Lithuania was still an agrarian and colonized country on the margins of Europe, to its present modern and post-modernist phase. Lithuanian literature was suppressed in the nineteenth century by the Russians but by the eve of WW II was flourishing again. A new Russian occupation reversed this and led to a Soviet-style socialist realism in fiction. The last decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new generation of writers who dealt with Lithuania's history and the contemporary world. The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature features the classic authors and the authors who have only recently come to prominence like Herkus Kuncius or Giedra Radvilaviciute.

http://www.amazon.com/Dedalus-Bookof-...

I could give some recommendations of Lithuanian books translated in English which weren't mentioned here yet.

Recently, Andrius Tapinas released a first steam punk semi-fictional novel "Hour of the Wolf" for a very low price (English translation is cheaper to buy than Lithuanian!)

http://www.amazon.com/Hour-Wolf-Steam...

Then there are some compilations of Lithuanian authors in two books for free. One is called "Sex. Lithuanian Style" (it's just a provocative title!):

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

And the other one is by Lithuanian female authors called "No Men, No Cry": http://www.skaitykle.lt/e-knygos/knyg...