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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.
'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'
'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'
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A phenomenon --Sunday Times
Powerful, passionately wrought, emotionally shattering, extraordinary --Independent
Finland's hottest crime writer will soon be as well-known as Stieg Larsson --The Times
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Powerful, passionately wrought, emotionally shattering, extraordinary --Independent
Finland's hottest crime writer will soon be as well-known as Stieg Larsson --The Times
"A phenomenon." (The Times)
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- ISBN 10 0802119417
- ISBN 13 9780802119414
- BindingHardcover
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