The Fisherman’s Son by Vilis Lacis (Vintage 1954 Illustrated Hardcover)

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Vilis Lacis (1904 – 1966) was a Latvian writer and communist politician. During World War I, his family fled to the Altai region in Siberia, where Lacis studied at the pedagogical seminary in Barnaul. In 1921, Lacis returned to Riga and at various times worked as a fisherman, port worker, ship’s fireman and librarian while writing in his free time. In 1933, he published his hugely successful novel Zvejnieka dels (‘Fisherman’s Son’), making him one of the most popular and commercially successful Latvian writers of the 1930s. His novels have been characterized as popular fiction, not always liked by high-brow critics, but widely read by ordinary people. His books have been translated into more than 50 languages, with translations into Russian being the most numerous.