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Latvia, 1940. Alberts Tiltens, just out of prison, returns to Mezozoli, his birthplace.The Soviet Regime has appointed him local Party organizer. His mission? To convince the people of this thriving agricultural community that the system that is about to oppress and control them will bring comfort and prosperity. The Mezozoli people recognize such lies all too well. Tiltens knows they will not believe him. Blue Horizons reflects the lives of the residents as they are dominated first by the inept and brutal Soviets, then by the ruthless Germans. The two armies advance and retreat over their farms, wreaking havoc on the Latvian countryside. As the power shifts, the sons of Mezozoli ally with one evil element or the other, while the locals hold out hope for their rescue by the British and the Americans. Biruta Blumberga masterfully portrays the shattered tranquility of the hardworking country farmers- with their livestock and berry patches, clover fields and traditions - as they succumb to a tidal wave of uncertainty, oppression and violence. Within this frightening chaos, Blumberga sets her bold story of love, survival and family ties -- of defeat, courage, love of country, resignation, domination, and Fate.

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"Biruta Blumberga is a Latvian writer whose family's farm was a battlefield during World War II. In 1949 her father and grandmother were deported to Siberia. She survived in Latvia with her mother and siblings, living a life behind the Iron Curtain - a life filled with cruelty, poverty, repression, and uncertainty. Blumberga worked tirelessly through five decades of Soviet oppression; managing to feed her family and keep them safe. This short novel echoes the fears and poignancy of those times, as does ""Biruta's Garden of Stories"", which she released in 2013. Blumberga now lives in a small town outside of Riga. Gunna Dickson, a New York-based journalist, has translated six books."

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