Series: Peter Owen World Series: Baltics

This story glows somewhere on the fringes of my consciousness, so close I can almost touch it. Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. Estonian author Kai Aareleid's novel, Burning Cities, is a poetic historical saga in which the fortunes of a small family parallel those of a small nation under Communism. A young girl growing up in Soviet...

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. Darkness and Company is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the safe-keeping of his Jewish lover. Lithuania, 1941, Vincentas has made a Faustian pact with an SS officer: in exchange...