Whose autobiographical novel 'Seitsmes rahukevad' (The Seventh Spring of Peace, 1985) depicted childhood in Stalinist rural Estonia through a child's perception?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Viivi Luik
- Step 1: Viivi Luik made a sensational prose breakthrough with Seitsmes rahukevad in 1985. Step 2. The novel captures the oppressive political tension and agricultural collectivization of early 1950s Estonia strictly through the naive and vivid imagination of a small girl. Answer: Viivi Luik. Why not the others: Leelo Tungal wrote the acclaimed autobiographical trilogy Seltsimees laps (Comrade Child); Eeva Park and Maimu Berg are later contemporary prose writers.
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