Asked to compare the Hungarian city of Pécs to his own birthplace, author Peteris Puritis is at a loss: he was only there once. Instead, he gives an unofficial guided tour of the many Soviet-era monuments in the Latvian town of his childhood, recalling some of the cheeky uses he and his friends found for them…
Peteris Puritis
is a Latvian author, journalist and creative director at Leo Burnett, Riga. His novel Koknesis was published in 2006.