The author has given the new book a subtitle Voices of awakened memories. Personal, experienced, emotionally and also humorously colored stories accompany the reader on the way from Monika Zīle’s early childhood to the present day, introducing people he has met in his life.
“Monika Zīle ‘s stories have a miraculous fascination. Nightbook are the author ‘s stories of memories – scenes of childhood and youth filled with explosive Latgalian color, events experienced during the years of active work, personal experiences entrusted to people close or stranger.
Each episode simultaneously reveals the era in which it was experienced, and Monika Zīle’s amazingly accurately observed and described human constant nature. Childhood tastes and incomprehensible pedigrees, romance and mysticism, a walking lazy man and an evening groom in Moscow – want to believe, want not to believe, but everything is white or, to be more precise, a variegated truth, so intriguing that you don’t break away, “writes writer Jana Egle.
Monika Zīle (1941) – prolific writer, long-term publicist, journalist, editor, demanded playwright and screenwriter, four-time winner of the AKKA-LAA Copyright Infinity Award. Novel A sister to herself In 2010, he received the Grand Readers’ Award as the most read work in public libraries.
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