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Old Aliide Truu lives alone in a cottage in the woods, pestered by flies she wishes would leave her in peace. Her isolation is interrupted when she spies a young woman under a tree in her garden. The girl is strange; arriving in the dead of night, bruised, dirty and shoeless - why is she at Aliide's door? Overcome by curiosity the old woman decides, warily, to take her in. Zara is on the run from men who tortured, raped, and sold her into slavery. Her only possession is a tattered photograph of her grandmother and another woman; in which Aliide recognizes herself and her sister. Horrified, she begins to realize that the past she has long tried to forget has finally caught up with her... Purge is a hauntingly intimate portrait of one family's shame against a backdrop of European war. It is a fiercely compelling novel about what we will accept just to survive and the legacies created by our worst experiences.
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Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland and a former graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy. She is the author of three novels. Purge is her first novel to be published in English translation. She lives in Helsinki.
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In Oksanen’s first novel translated into English, mystery surrounds the grimy, disheveled girl secretive Aliide finds lying in the yard of her house in the Estonian countryside that is full of homemade elixirs and dried herbs, flowers, and fruits, homegrown or from the nearby woods. The girl, Zara, speaks an archaic, provincial Estonian “yellow and moth-eaten . . . with a strange smell of death in it,” which leads Aliide to suspect she’s connected with thieves, possibly those plundering the woods for lumber to sell to the West. In 1992 Estonia, anything’s possible, and though Aliide wants to distance herself from Zara’s “repulsive, familiar smell of fear,” she opens her door to the bedraggled girl, despite her better judgment. Thus, the stage is set for reopening wounds from the decades of Estonia’s post-WWII Soviet occupation, when camp survivors streamed in, eyes averted, and refugees “disappeared into the mouths of the new factories.” Maps help orient readers, who will dive into this taut, well-crafted tale of Europe’s still living post-war pain. --Whitney Scott
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1848872119
- ISBN 13 9781848872110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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