The third novel of the young Latvian writer Iveta Rēdliha “Mānīgā ziemeļblāzma” has started to reach readers, the representatives of the publishing house “Zvaigze ABC” informed.
The place of the novel is the northern land of Svalbard, but the main character is the Latvian Ināra, who went there to find out the true circumstances of an accident.
The writer, author of the novels “Steps” and “Another Deep Breath”, Iveta Rēdliha was born in Svalbard, a remote northern archipelago in Norway. Therefore, as noted by the publishing house, it is not uncommon for the writer to have long nurtured the idea of writing a book in which the events would take place in this place.
The publishers also emphasized: “In her novels, Iveta Rēdliha is able to shed light on one of the current social problems in our society – the family of violence, so she has chosen a genre of prose in which the strokes of literary representation are thick, bold, shocking – psychological thrillers.”
Iveta Redliha
Photo: From a private archive
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The heroine of the novel “Manic Northern Lights” Ināra Svalbāra has had a land for a long time – she has dreamed of getting there with her friend for years. However, when the young woman really goes there, the purpose of the trip is far from her dream: her friend, with whom Ināra once dreamed to go here, died in Svalbard. Settling in the largest city, Longyearbyen, Inara is gradually getting closer to the locals and trying to find out the circumstances of Edward’s death. It turns out that there is a secret here, because another Latvian has arrived in Svalbard together with Edvarts, and no one has seen him for two weeks now. Although the locals are kind and help Ināra to overcome both the darkness and the pain of loss, Ināra gradually realizes that no one in the north tends to come by accident. A particularly close relationship with Ināra is formed with the energetic redhead Ingrid, and she thinks that this friendship of women is mutual, but she soon senses that the polar night keeps many more secrets.
Natalia Kugayevskaya is also the creator of the cover art for this cover of Reedlich’s novel, and the writer says on her Facebook website: “It would never have been imagined that the cover of a book could express the essence of the work to its depths.”
An e-book is also available.
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