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Performance Art"Every day at noon he sent astral messages to Little Mirdza. Now and then he felt a vibration on the top of his head, or a current between his eyebrows, and he’d imagine that was her reply. He’d mouth the mantra silently on their endless marches but lost count when the Fritzes shouted at them, which was always."
Bruno Slept Here begins in Nazi-occupied Rīga, when fifteen-year-old Bruno joins a secret yoga club whose teachings go beyond headstands to include astral projection. Not yet finished high school, young Bruno is conscripted, pitched into the madness of war with only telepathy and a Vedic mantra as protection.
The book is based on the life of the author’s father and draws on years of research. Baņuta Rubess braids personal history into her fiction, pushing the boundaries of what a novel can hold.
Bruno Slept Here was published in Latvian translation in 2024 to general acclaim.