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Part psychological thriller, part historical fiction, this book was not at all what I expected. You should avoid reading reviews if possible because too many give away too much, but to give a general idea, the novel begins in Estonia in 1992, where an old woman, Aliide Truu, lives alone in the count...
60. PURGE, BY SOFI OKSANENThe last of Tytti’s recommendations. She warned me it contained sexual violence, but I still wasn’t quite ready for the graphic descriptions and sadistic details. Still, a very interesting book, if you have the stomach for it.Synopsis: Aliide, an old Soviet occupancy surviv...
I had to take a break as I was reading Sofi Oksanen's When the Doves Disappeared to read up on Estonia during World War II. It's the first book I've read that's set in the Baltic, let alone in the Baltic during the war. I didn't know, for example, that Estonia had been an independent country before ...
Thank you to Knopf Doubleday for providing me with an egalley copy of the book for review. I was in Tallinn, Estonia a couple months ago for the first time and fell in love with the country. It’s so rich in culture and history, yet it’s sad to see that much of the world doesn’t pay too m...
This novel reached out and grabbed hold of me and didn't let go until the end. It's an exploration of individual choices, mistakes, and cruelties on a background of war and revolution. The individual characters are complex and compelling, if not quite sympathetic. Before I started it, I knew a li...
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