Vilnius Poker
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A labour-camp survivor tries to understand Soviet Vilnius through conflicting narrative voices.
Original title: Vilniaus pokeris
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Gavelis offers a route into Lithuanian prose through Vilnius, paranoia and multiple voices. Conflicting perspectives replace a single reliable version of events. Škėma’s White Shroud takes a Lithuanian poet into a New York elevator and emigrant anxiety. Grinkevičiutė records deportation to the far north, Parulskis confronts complicity in the Holocaust, and Sabaliauskaitė reconstructs multicultural seventeenth-century Vilnius. Choose between modernism, testimony and a broad historical saga.
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A labour-camp survivor tries to understand Soviet Vilnius through conflicting narrative voices.
Original title: Vilniaus pokeris

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