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Sofie Oksanen: Purgatory

Novel. 400 pages,
Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2010 . From the Finnish by Angela Ploeger. Title of the original edition: Puhdistus. ISBN: 978-3-462-04234-4. € 19.95 alone in a farmhouse on the Estonian country lives, finds a bundle in her garden, which turns out to be a young woman, she swallows down their skepticism and contempt for humanity and Zara takes into her house. Zara is on the run from their pimps, who obliged them with brutal violence, and their compliance are already hot on his heels. But Zara looks not so random shelter with Aliide how this feels: Aliide could be the sister of her grandmother. While Zara still evidence of the relationship and looking for a way to leave Estonia, feels threatened by the young woman Aliide: Too often they had to body and soul, possessions protect against intruders. In flashbacks creates the ever-tougher image of a family tragedy that almost fifty years earlier, when Estonia was occupied by the Russians, reached its climax. Rivalry and jealousy, shame, vulnerability and, above all, fear of the brutality of men to women - these are the motives that Aliide forced to unimaginable decisions. Sofi Oksanen
was achieved with this novel, which appears in more than 25 countries and just celebrated in the U.S., is a grand success. Breathless with excitement reading about the fate of two women of very different and yet similar experiences in the core make: there is no matter what political system also victims are always the women.
the author:
Sofi Oksanen

, born 1977, daughter of an Estonian Finnish mother and a father who studied drama at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Her third novel, "Purgatory," was number one for months by the Finnish-seller list, sold in Finland as well as "Harry Potter" and has won numerous awards, including the Finlandia Prize and the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council. Sofi Oksanen lives in Helsinki.


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