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Purge (Paperback)
Sofi Oksanen
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R502
R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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An international sensation, Sofi Oksanen's award-winning novel
Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by
their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds
them. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian
countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she
suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young
sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she
carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide's
home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a
complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each
other's motives; gradually, their stories emerge, the culmination
of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out
during the worst years of Estonia's Soviet occupation. Sofi Oksanen
establishes herself as one the most important voices of her
generation with this intricately woven tale, whose stakes are
almost unbearably high from the first page to the last. Purge is a
fiercely compelling and damning novel about the corrosive effects
of shame, and of life in a time and place where to survive is to be
implicated.
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
1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing
from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter,
and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes
into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on
a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963:
Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further
out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet
apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and
stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with
Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the
truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult
of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance,
deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both
the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of
tyranny.
'An ambiguous horror story about egg donorship and the black
market, it keeps the reader equally balanced between frustration
and fascination. ' Daily Mail 'An intricate, textured slow-burner
that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters
rule and the exploitation of the female body is big business'
Guardian Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family
play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka
startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all,
Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about
to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are,
together - looking at their own children being raised by other
people. Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in
the early days of its post-Soviet independence, Dog Park is a
keenly observed, dark and propulsive novel set at the intersection
of East and West, centered in a web of exploitation and the
commodification of the female body. Oksanen brings fearless
psychological acuity to this captivating story about a woman unable
to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that
still hunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.
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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.
1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing
from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter,
and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes
into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on
a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963:
Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further
out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet
apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and
stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with
Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the
truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult
of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance,
deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both
the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of
tyranny.
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Purge (Paperback, Main)
Sofi Oksanen; Translated by Lola Rogers
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R456
R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
Save R47 (10%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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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