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Soviet Milk
by Nora Ikstena
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena, translated by Margita Gailitis. Peirene Press, 2018 (Kindle Edition).
Soviet Milk is a story of generations of women in Latvia in 1969-1989 (during the Soviet occupancy). Told from two points of view, the Mother and the Daughter. The Mother was a talented and gifted doctor pursuing career in gynecology. But she didn’t feel any maternal bonding with her daughter, even refused to breastfeed her. She went to Leningrad to supplement her education but then involved in a criminal activity that caused her to lost her medical license. She went home and decided to move to a countryside to work in an ambulatory center.
The Daughter, though never get the love she’s supposed to get from her mother, followed her to the countryside. As a child born in Soviet Latvia, she never understood her mother talks about freedom or oppression. But she patiently took care of her mother with her ups and downs and her suicidal tendency, until she met a teacher that finally opened her eyes about the country’s situation; therefore, learn bit by bit about her mother’s condition.
Soviet Milk talks about problematic mother-daughter relationship, women’s issues such as fertility, abortion, transgender, even domestic violence and mental illness, and of course, how the Soviet Union occupancy affected their ways of life. I was immersed in the mind of the oppressed Mother, yet this darkness is balanced by the Daughter, a righteous and obedient girl who loves her mother unconditionally. With the social and political condition of Soviet Latvia as the background story, Soviet Milk gave me a bit of the picture of women’s lives and struggles during the war, something that not yet a common topic in literature.
Buku ini sudah diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia dengan judul Air Susu Ibu oleh Windy Ariestanti, diterbitkan oleh Penerbit Spring. Salah satu buku terbaik yang pernah kubaca tahun ini.
Soviet Milk is a story of generations of women in Latvia in 1969-1989 (during the Soviet occupancy). Told from two points of view, the Mother and the Daughter. The Mother was a talented and gifted doctor pursuing career in gynecology. But she didn’t feel any maternal bonding with her daughter, even refused to breastfeed her. She went to Leningrad to supplement her education but then involved in a criminal activity that caused her to lost her medical license. She went home and decided to move to a countryside to work in an ambulatory center.
The Daughter, though never get the love she’s supposed to get from her mother, followed her to the countryside. As a child born in Soviet Latvia, she never understood her mother talks about freedom or oppression. But she patiently took care of her mother with her ups and downs and her suicidal tendency, until she met a teacher that finally opened her eyes about the country’s situation; therefore, learn bit by bit about her mother’s condition.
Soviet Milk talks about problematic mother-daughter relationship, women’s issues such as fertility, abortion, transgender, even domestic violence and mental illness, and of course, how the Soviet Union occupancy affected their ways of life. I was immersed in the mind of the oppressed Mother, yet this darkness is balanced by the Daughter, a righteous and obedient girl who loves her mother unconditionally. With the social and political condition of Soviet Latvia as the background story, Soviet Milk gave me a bit of the picture of women’s lives and struggles during the war, something that not yet a common topic in literature.
Buku ini sudah diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia dengan judul Air Susu Ibu oleh Windy Ariestanti, diterbitkan oleh Penerbit Spring. Salah satu buku terbaik yang pernah kubaca tahun ini.