Estonia

The Saviour of Lasnamae is an Estonian novel written by Mari Saat, which was translated into English by Susan Wilson and published by Vagabond Voices in 2015.

A book about post-Soviet Estonia, written from the perspectives of a Russian single mother in insecure work and her anxious, ambitious daughter, Saat builds a picture of their difficult lives and a country that has shifted and transformed into a very different economy around the protagonist.

Accidentally I find myself building a set of novels that centre around post-Soviet change, interesting stories about people's lives in a world that has radically shifted. This story sits among others from Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and others that I haven't read yet. Another part of the puzzle of Europe in the 20th and 21st century.