Latvian Books

Using the myth of the Minotaur, the hero of Georgiy Gospodinov's novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from century to century, from point of view to point of view, exploring the state of mind and stumbling blocks of Eastern Europeans.

The unnamed narrator suffers from 'pathological empathy,' the attacks of which take him on wanderings through his own and other people's memories. His message is at times incredibly moving, at times very witty.

'The Physics of Sadness' is a book in which the reader can settle down, look for connections, follow the narrator in his footsteps through various side corridors, blissfully get lost in the countless plots and sympathize with the sad, misunderstood Minotaur - the central axis of this work.

Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on communist-era Europe, this dazzlingly inventive, vision-broadening novel, with its unique structure, humanist ideas, and gifted narrative, confirms that Georgi Gospodinov is deservedly considered one of Europe's most important contemporary authors

More than anything, Lucy craves the love and support of her mother-in-law, Diana, but from the very first meeting she encounters cold reticence.

Disagreements and misunderstandings between the two women grow until a conflict breaks out, as a result of which Diana even ends up in the hospital. Ten years after Lucy enters the Goodwin family, tragedy strikes - Diana dies under mysterious circumstances.

Although initially considered a suicide, the evidence suggests otherwise. Who would want Diana dead? When the investigation reveals years of secrets, resentment and mutual conflicts, the shadow of suspicion falls on all family members, including Lucy.

Will she really be found guilty? Will she be able to continue living, having learned who her mother-in-law really was?

Jennifer Weiner is a New York Times bestselling author. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. Very often, it begins with a thrilling first glance. Sometimes it's a story about giving a second chance. Sometimes the answers are known almost instantly. But Rachel Bloom and Andy Landis' relationship takes many years to come to the most important question of their lives - whether they can ultimately walk the path together.

They are just young children when they meet in a hospital emergency room. They meet again as teenagers, and the mutual attraction is too strong to resist. Romance unites the most different - a girl from a family of wealthy and caring parents and a young man whose mother takes care of her son alone. Over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel meet again and part again, bound by chance and shared memories, climb the mountain of success and victory and fall into the abyss of defeat and despair, but rise and climb again - even stronger and wiser in life.

This is a soulful novel with a dose of humor and self-irony, a fantastic revelation about the flow of time, about how we change, while changing each other. But the measure is only one - the beloved person and the ability to be happy

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.

But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father's wedding, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make

Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean's the one who'll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family

What would you do to save your best friend? Steph and Pip have been best friends for thirty years. There's nothing they wouldn't do for each other. Until a few simple words change everything. I need you to tell the police that I was with you that night.

The ever-conscientious and impeccable Steph begs her friend to lie to the police, desperate to keep a secret that could tear her family apart. Pip is faced with a dilemma. Steph's perfect life will be ruined if Pip doesn't lie. But this lie will jeopardize everything Pip has managed to achieve over the years. Her friend's request is too serious. What would you do?

Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who inherited his father's passion for the Maryland coast. After his father's death, he is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But life is not only about achievements, but also about serious challenges.

Young Seth, who has only recently joined the Quinn family, needs Ethan more than ever. And there is a woman Ethan has always loved and who has never seemed to be available. To fulfill his long-held dreams, Ethan must come to terms with his past and find the courage to open his heart before it is too late.

Sometimes it is the most unexpected turns that open the door to what the heart has been silently waiting for all his life

If you thought your wedding day was stressful, wait until you hear about Millie's... This should be the happiest day of my life. I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in just a few hours we'll be declared husband and wife. Until death do us part.

Despite what I've been through in the past, this day is everything I've ever dreamed of. But there's just one small problem: someone doesn't want me to live long enough to say 'I do.' And if I'm not careful, that wish might come true

A yellow taxi, a golf club and a cat! What do they have in common? As if nothing... only these characters are repeated with unusual insistence in the new collection of stories by Latvian fantasy and science fiction writers 'Pedestrians'. Why? And that's not all - this collection draws the reader into guessing other riddles.

What does the Dream Blower do? How would a car controlled by thoughts work? Is the baby in the bed just a fiction? What would you do if you could rewrite the past? Or, even more so - the future?

The writers do not promise clear answers, but one thing they can promise - a colorful, exciting, even dazzling journey into the world of imagination, which often so imperceptibly overflows into the reality we know, that we have to understand - we are all just pedestrians in some mysterious, completely unknowable traffic of dreams, ideas and unusual events. In traffic, where accidents sometimes happen, and then the inexplicable and fantastic suddenly become visible

Arthur Conan Doyle's latest collection of stories, 'The Empty House,' takes the reader into the exciting world of Sherlock Holmes' detective adventures, where the brilliant investigator and his trusted assistant, Dr. Watson, solve various, often seemingly incomprehensible crimes.

The collection of stories includes all the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that have been translated into Latvian so far

Early Sunday morning, Egons Dambergs receives a call - a body has been found in the yard of Police General Bose, and his kitchen has been vandalized.

On the same day, returning home from Austria, Anna Elizabeth's grandmother, Baroness Anna Rose Berg, disappears without a trace at the Vienna airport. However, if these events remain known only to narrow circles, then the news that a well-known businessman's double has been found murdered in his home, along with an article in the yellow press, spreads throughout the country.

Anna Elizabeth again gets involved in the investigation