Five fingers
By: Māra Zālīte ; translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis
Contributors: Gailītis, Margita, translator
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781628971699
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Parent and child; Mind and reality; Concentration camp inmates; Homecoming; Fiction
Work titles: Pieci pirksti
Description: "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"--
Notes: Translation from the Latvian of: Pieci pirksti.

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