Kommunalka Child

Nine months after she was conceived as a way to contribute to population growth just like every other Soviet kid Kommunalka Child was harvested from a cabbage patch. She was brought up in a bilingual family in a communal apartment in Riga. As she was searching for a place in the world the Soviet way of life slowly collapsed in the face of Western luxuries. <br>Kommunalka Child takes its time-travellers onboard and triggers the reader's personal memories and senses of smell taste and touch. The cinematic storytelling in these funny touching embarrassing and absurd illustrated micro-memoirs reveals what life was like in the last decade of the Soviet Union all through the eyes of a Latvian child.