The central character tries to follow her calling as a doctor, but then the intrusive ominous apparatus of the Soviet state steps in, which deprives her of a professional future, her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter.
Soviet Milk, which took the Baltics by storm, is however a story of human hope and love as it considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. Armando Iannucci’s recent film The Death of Stalin, which is banned in Russia, captures the terrifying absurdity of a tyrant and life under Soviet terror, where the fear of being killed looms over every Soviet citizen every minute of every day. Ikstena isn’t interested in Hollywood, but her acclaimed literary work is being made into a film nonetheless. Ikstena’s fiction, “opens up new paths not only for Latvian literature in English translation but for English literature itself,” notes the British author and editor, Jeremy M. The much awaited publication in March 2018 of the Latvian writer Nora Ikstena’s English translation of he sad but hopeful novel Soviet Milk has been received with critical acclaim. The former Estonian prime minister Mart Laar said that the world still avoids talking about the crimes of communism and that an international Hollywood hit film with renowned actors would draw attention to the issue and raise the world’s awareness of the bloody history and tragedy it wrought on people’s lives.
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