With dance shoes in Siberian snows
By: by Sandra Kalniete ; translated by Margita Gailitis.
Edition: 1st Dalkey ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781564785459
Subjects: Kalniete, Sandra -- Childhood and youth; Kalniete, Sandra -- Family; Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Latvia; Latvia -- History -- 1940-1991 -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos.
Description: "Sandra Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is a story of human survival, and it has become the most translated Latvian book in recent history."--Book jacket.
Notes: Originally published in Latvian: Rīga : Atēna, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "We are sitting . . ."; title: Family ties; title: Prelude; title: Occupation; title: Deportation; title: My grandfather Janis; title: Vyatlag; title: War in Latvia; title: "I beg you - shoot me or exonerate me"; title: Forced settlement and starvation; title: Changes; title: My grandmother Emilija; title: Family member of a bandit; title: "My mother will wash my hair in rainwater"; title: "We won't give birth to any more slaves"; title: The long way home; title: "Dear Voldin!"; title: Time spent in deportation; title: Chronology of events; title: Acronyms and abbreviations used in the book; title: Pronunciation of Latvian.