The book "Breast Milk" by Nora Ikstena

The main character, a mother, deliberately deprives her daughter of breast milk, not allowing her to inherit her pain and despair.

The main character is a gynecologist who understands people very well and is able to help many with her knowledge, but it turns out that she is not able to live the life that is allotted to her.

Nora Ikstena's novel "Mother's Milk" is the story of three generations of women in one family. The author vividly depicts the social environment of Soviet Latvia during her childhood and youth, the moral vacuum that was strangely directed and broke people from within.

The entire text of the novel is a documentary about the impossibility of living, permeated with renunciation of husband and father, dreams, ideas and beliefs, work and one's own point of view, friends and loved ones.