Forest Brothers: The Account of an Anti-Soviet Freedom Fighter - Juozas Luksa

Budapest - New York: Central European University Press, 2009

An autobiographical account of the little-known armed resistance against the Soviet Union that took place between 1944–1956. Published in English for the first time in unabridged form, Lukša’s memoir remains one of the few reliable eye-witness accounts of the “Invisible Front”--a term dubbed by Soviet security forces. At its zenith 28,000 guerilla fighters participated in battles and skirmishes throughout Lithuania. Lukša (partisan codename Daumantas) was one of the most important leaders of the resistance. 

In 1948 Lukša and two comrades broke through the Iron Curtain on the Polish border. Lukša sought training from the French intelligence and from the CIA. On the night of October 4, 1950 Lukša was flown back into the Soviet Union under the radar to conduct espionage work for the CIA. He managed to survive and operate eleven months until his near capture and death on the night of September 5, 1951. His account, written during 1948–1950, while he was living in hiding in Paris, describes in vivid scenes and dialogue the daily struggles of the resistance. Forest Brothers is unique in that is also documents the role of women in the resistance, giving equal credit to these often silent partners.

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K.B., The Suspect - Marcelijus Martiniatis

White Pine Press, 2009

"To the pantheon of East European poets--Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub--we must now add Martinaitis. `K.B.,' the poet's common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the post-Soviet era, one in the usual turmoils of the human self. In Laima Vince's wonderful translation, this poetry is sharp, comic, salty, yet at the same time overflowing with compassion and tenderness"--Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Marcelijus Martinaitis is a well-known Lithuanian poet and essayist. He has published ten collections of poetry. This is his first collection in English.

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The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose

Tyto Alba, 2002

"The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose" brings together for the first time in English translation a spectrum of Lithuanian voices ranging from the prose of young writers who began their literary careers in the post-Soviet period to older emigre writers who wrote in Lithuanian but published for nearly fifty years outside of their native land. 

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