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18, Paperback / softback Book

18 Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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As the First World War comes to an end, chaos takes over in much of Europe and even the victors sense that the old certainties have been lost in the massacre.

In Latvia it appears that two centuries of Russian rule are coming to an end, but other powers and destabilising factors persist.

Pauls Bankovskis's novel examining this most important of years in his country's history reveals how a new republic emerged from disorder and chance, gradually but also erratically.

Painstaking in his research, he even walked himself the full length of the escape route to Finland taken by his protagonist.

This is the story of a year and its far from unified people.

Two different Latvias, almost a century apart, one looking uncertainly to the future and the other uncomprehendingly to the past, inhabit very different eras and use each other to inform their own actions.

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