Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding.Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years.Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war.
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THOSE WHO DENY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.
THOSE WHO DENY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT Purge has become an international publishing sensation and is among the most hard-hitting thrillers of recent years.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781848872134
Publisert
2011-05-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
277 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

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.

Lola Rogers is a Finnish to English literary translator living in Seattle.