Five Fingers Portuguese Literature Series Interweaving flashes of the horrific

Interweaving flashes of the horrific Jeju Uprising and the Korean War with pleasant family anecdotes

The Sins of the Wolf

A metaphysical thriller

The Sea is “a profound and radical descent into the depths of the human soul

A Contrived World recounts the author’s visit to the mythic Californian city

Five Fingers Portuguese Literature Series Interweaving flashes of the horrificFive year old Laura was born in one of Joseph Stalins 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 Five year old Laura was born