Svens Kuzmins' 'Rigaer Freiheit': A Novel About Latvia's Capital After the Soviet Union (faz.net)

• Novel set in Riga early 2000s after the Soviet Union
• Narrator Svens lives on Freedom Street and experiences renovation wave
• Combines city portrait, generational and family history

"A review of Svens Kuzmins' novel 'Rigaer Freiheit', which depicts life in Riga, Latvia at the turn of the millennium, shortly after the end of the Soviet Union and before EU accession. The first-person narrator Svens lives on Freedom Street and reflects on the renovation craze, identity, and historical traces. The novel combines a city portrait, generational story, and family narrative with a tone between irony and melancholy."