Ajaloo ilu

Ajaloo ilu (History of Beauty) is a 1991 novel by Estonian author Viivi Luik. The novel was re-issued in 2002 and revised in 2011. The novel has been translated into Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Latvian, Icelandic, Hungarian, French, Catalan, English and Albanian.

The plot of the novel unfolds in Latvia and Estonia in August 1968, when Soviet troops occupied Czechoslovakia during Prague Spring.^[1] The leading character is a 21-year-old woman who falls in love with a sculptor.

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