Seven WorldsTravel Novel
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Growing Green
The book brings together different topics about the environment. Here you will read columns written for the web portal Green Gate (Roheline Värav), excerpts from a weblog, short interviews with Estonian experts, and summaries from English-language bestsellers about the environment. It’s a compilation of the general and the specific, distant and close information. Why is there famine in Africa, why are the world seas polluted, where to take your old computer, how to cut back on electricity use at home, how to make home repairs in an environmentally friendly way? In addition to tips on living green, you can also find a green self-analysis in this book: is environmental awareness a new religion? Can one person alone change something in this consumer-centered world?
Marta's toes
The first draft of this book was delivered to the author’s daughter Marta as a gift for her third birthday. Three years later, this 90-page collection of short stories about an imaginative little girl was published.
With colorful and moving illustrations by artist Piia Maiste, Marta’s Toes is both deeply personal and universal. In it, the author tells quick tales of her daughter’s encounters with an outside world where the unnoticed details of daily life can take on extraordinary meaning.
Marta lives in a world where the bubbles in her bathtub whisper to her, where planes wave at her from the sky, where she is befriended by ladybugs, and where she greets her toes in the morning and they talk back to her. Seen through a child’s eyes, Marta’s Toes also is an account of a young girl developing relationships with her mother and father and grandparents, adapting to life in a new home, and trying to understand what it means when someone dies. Altogether, Marta’s Toes provides a fresh perspective on the joy and warmth of everyday family life.
Where Did the Cloud Come from?
This is a book for children and for those who are children at heart.
Author of the text Epp Petrone: “This story is something that happened to me when I was six years old and staying in the countryside with my grandmother and grandfather. It was the last summer before I had to go to school and one day, near the tilia tree, I witnessed a miracle.”
The book is illustrated by Kamille Saabre.
When Mushrooms Still Spoke
When Mushrooms Still Spoke is the second in a series of books about the relationship between a young girl and the natural world.
“My mother taught me how to open my heart to understand the stories of the trees, mosquitoes, and dogs,” writes author Epp Petrone. “What happened to us when we went to the forest to pick mushrooms, got lost, and the sun disappeared? Were we able to hear over the other voices in the forest to notice the sounds of the apple trees in our garden calling us home?”
At first glance, this poetic book is the simple tale of a mother and daughter picking mushrooms in the woods. But it is also about communication, not just between people, but between people and their environment.
With vivid, inspiring illustrations by Kamille Saabre, When Mushrooms Still Spoke weaves mystery into everyday life, giving voices to nature, voices that readers of this book are reminded they too may have once heard.
Icebreaker
Icebreaker was first published in black and white by Valgus Publishing in 1986. The first half of the book was made up of short stories and the other half took the reader on a voyage with personal correspondence.
The new Icebreaker is a supplemented and shortened version. Color photographs and a previously cut story about the migration of birds in the fall have been added. At the same time, we left out all the travel correspondence of the original, because the world seen through Soviet eyes doesn’t fit today with these timeless pictures of nature in our homeland.
The stories have not been changed. What has changed, however, is the significance and purpose of the book. The significance has become clearer and the purpose more difficult to fulfill, because the world is different now.
Fred Jüssi
And Forgive Us Our Trespasses
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The Story of A Boy
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Born as a WomanTwenty Years Later. Part One
When it was first published, this book became incredibly successful because of frank discussion of sexuality, but it also drew a lot of criticism for the same reason. Even though this series of portraits about different young women discussed how the changes Estonia was undergoing were impacting young people, this aspect of the book went almost unnoticed.
When she heard about the sequel, one of my good colleagues listed all the things that could have happened to the characters from the first book: they could be divorced and struggling with getting alimony, they could have married abroad and come back, some may have reached the top and remained lonely in their personal life, some may have died … But, actually, that’s exactly the way it is. A person can’t be more creative than the Creator himself.
Kati Murutar
Born as a WomanTwenty Years Later. Part Two
The second part of the book: a series of portraits about different young women in the changing Estonian state during the last 20 years.
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Who is afraid of Africa?
Who’s afraid of Africa? The author Anna-Maria Penu for sure not! Her sharp plume has written a powerful, critical but also sensitive and emotional insight into society, a novel that takes the reader along to a journey to Uganda - a country, where poverty and political corruption flourishes, where strongly ingrained traditions may obscure a sober mind, where the social stigma is easy to come and where no-one really wants to know what one white-skinned woman, who has come to work to a local daily newspaper, thinks about all of this.
The book brings together different topics about the environment. Here you will read columns written for the web portal Green Gate (Roheline Värav), excerpts from a weblog, short interviews with Estonian experts, and summaries from English-language bestsellers about the environment. It’s a compilation of the general and the specific, distant and close information. Why is there famine in Africa, why are the world seas polluted, where to take your old computer, how to cut back on electricity use at home, how to make home repairs in an environmentally friendly way? In addition to tips on living green, you can also find a green self-analysis in this book: is environmental awareness a new religion? Can one person alone change something in this consumer-centered world?
Lagerii
This collection consists of six plays, written 1995–2005. Theatrical, spirited, and full of feminine zeal, the plays concern Zarah Leander, and the relationship between a priest and a dancer, the muse and lover of a famous singer, one man’s harem, and one woman’s worries. Every play includes a foreword by the author that reveals the background of the piece.
Come, Let Me Tell You a Story
This collection includes the short stories of 19 authors. These authors are connected together by their age. Most of them were born in the 1980s.
Dagmar Lamp, the compiler of the collection and one of the authors, says that the book “looks like our generation. It looks like us, the youth, who have the whole world before us. We don’t remember anything about the struggle for a free Estonia. The memories of the Baltic chain or tanks on the streets are increasingly distant and foreign for us. We did not have our big war – and this is our bane. We look and we search, sometimes finding, at other times losing.”
The Tumults of TartuShort Stories
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