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translation: Russian skin
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"In "Russian skin", historical everyday details and world events play only a background role, because the strength of the writer Dace Ruksane is in the fullness of feelings - both love and hate. Halftones are not possible for her characters, and even knowing that loss is possible, it feels like they are throwing themselves into the open, tearing away all the obstacles and leaving them on the shore."
Gundega Blumberg
"Dace Ruksane's novel "Russian skin" is about the big questions hidden in the small ones. That's what life (or history, if we think about a nation) does - challenges with candies that smell like kerosene, money in cookie boxes, dust on cabbage fields, a white pot in a new apartment and a stuffed pike on the table. Fortunately, really - fortunately - I didn't have to live in the 20th century 50-60 years in Soviet Latvia. Because I don't know what choices I would have made. Even though I would be afraid and silent, able and unable, looking for connections and hookups, hating and loving, foaming, kneading, culturing and clapping... Yes, and probably also loving the one who is not worthy to be loved. "As it is, you have to live like that. What will happen will be seen." It seems that all our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers are in this story. We do not know how they lived and survived at that time. Here's a chance to get closer." Inita Saulite-Zander (historian, journalist)
