I picked this up because a colleague said it was about the new wave of Latvian immigrants in England today. Not great literature, but a quick read (127 pages) giving a glimpse into the daily lives of Latvians in England. It talks of a group of fairly young people, who work together in a construction firm, and their wives or girlfriends. Their language is full of slang and curses from Russian, English and Spanish, and I appreciate that it all gets translated, as I only understand the English phrases. I got more of a sense of why people are leaving and why they think it is worth staying. These were simple working folks, but they too philosophized about their country and their relation to it. There was a goofy plot about a terrorist wanting to blow up a dam and riff on jet ski's, but all in all fun.
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