Many years had to pass before these stories could be told. They are first-hand accounts written by people deported from Latvia to Siberia in the 1940s and 1950s. They tell about the tragic times when a knock on the door in the middle of the night meant the beginning of a long, painful journey in a cattle wagon to an unknown destination. The deportees suffered extreme hardship, and many of them starved or froze to death in the 'Sleeping Land', as the early inhabitants called Siberia. Love of their homeland, Latvia, and the hope of returning one day, helped to sustain those who managed to survive -- Dust jacket
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Translations by Astrid Sics, M āra Rozīte and Ināra Graudiņa
Translations by Astrid Sics, Mara Rozite and Indara Graudina