Lithuanian Lullaby, Mott, Gordon; Amazon.ca; Kindle Store
The novel Lithuanian Lullaby follows the lives of six people as they cope with unprecedented world events occurring between 1987 and 1997. With his country collapsing, a Soviet conscript in Afghanistan devotes his life to undermining the very country he is meant to serve. A Hungarian teenager cuts through a border fence in search of a better life, only to find herself indebted and robbed in London. In his perennial search for adventure and romance, an American discovers that language is no barrier to true love. An unconventional English couple struggles to raise their love child in Yorkshire. Each story has a thread connecting the characters with the small Baltic nation of Lithuania, a “new” country emerging from a prolonged sleep. The years of loneliness and isolation are over; the world is changing – and so will they.
Gordon Mott is a Canadian writer, with a keen interest in Lithuanian and Eastern European politics, history and culture. In the late 90’s, he lived in newly independent Lithuania teaching English at Donelaitis High School in Klaipėda. He was deeply moved by Lithuania’s struggle for independence, and, several decades later, this became the theme of his first novel, Lithuanian Lullaby. He lives in Vancouver with his wife Asta and their son Justin.
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