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Future Skills (Paperback)
Perttu Polonen; Translated by Owen F. Witesman
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R488
R405
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the
Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a
searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the
extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty. When Anita
Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is
left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding:
Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in
her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own
accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair
that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's
funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting
out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling
cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to
realise that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she
let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. From the reviews
of Purge: 'A phenomenon' Times 'Powerful, passionately wrought,
emotionally shattering, extraordinary' Independent 'Purge stands
out. Murder, sexual violence and political history combine to place
Oksanen in the front rank of crime novelists.' Sunday Times 'Books
of the Year' 'Finland's hottest crime writer will soon be as
well-known as Stieg Larsson' The Times 'Essential reading: Purge is
not a book to read last thing at night.' Economist
A group of hate crimes, a conspiracy, or a coincidence?
Investigator Maria Kallio searches for answers close to home in
award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen's riveting thriller. After
completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn
Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head
of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home
country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three
immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have
gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a
fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf,
the investigation takes on a grim new urgency. Is there a
xenophobic serial killer on the loose? A random white nationalist?
Or does something more insidious bind the girls? In a Finnish city
struggling to assimilate a new population of Muslim immigrants, the
answers are hard to come by... One thing is certain: it will take a
detective familiar with the darkest depths of humanity to sift
through the wreckage of clashing cultures in search of the truth.
That detective is Maria Kallio.
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Sisterland (Hardcover)
Salla Simukka, Owen F. Witesman
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R437
R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Norma (Paperback, Main)
Sofi Oksanen; Translated by Owen F. Witesman
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R289
R235
Discovery Miles 2 350
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The hair-raising mash-up of feminist X-Men, gothic fairy tale,
family saga and biting social criticism that is taking Europe by
storm. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her
daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent
their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the
slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around
her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near.
And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a
strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have
taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final
months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank
statements, video files--Norma begins to realise that her mother
knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth
beyond Norma's imagining.
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Her Enemy (Paperback)
Leena Lehtolainen; Translated by Owen F. Witesman
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R292
R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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After solving her first murder and leaving the Helsinki Police
Department behind, Maria Kallio thought that a move to the
neighboring city of Espoo would signal a fresh start ? a chance to
not only put her new law degree to use but to nurture her budding
romance with Antti Sarkela. But when she discovers the strangled
body of a new acquaintance, old habits die hard for the redheaded
sleuth ? especially since the accused is not only the victim's
fianc? but a member of Antti's family. Though she works as a legal
counselor, Kallio soon finds herself unofficially investigating the
murder, now labeled a sex crime. While Antti's relative may have
some peculiar sexual tendencies, Kallio doubts that the man she's
agreed to defend is capable of the crime. To crack the case, Kallio
will have to pull back the curtain on Espoo high society?and
uncover a secret someone is willing to kill to keep hidden. Her
Enemy, the latest addition to Lehtolainen's bestselling crime
series, sends intrepid Detective Kallio into the dark side of human
passion.
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