Purge

Sofi Oksanen · 2008 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

In Estonia in 1992 an old woman, Aliide, finds a young trafficked woman, Zara, collapsed in her yard, and the two are bound by what each is hiding. Alternating chapters return to Aliide's life under Soviet and German occupation. Oksanen, a Finn of Estonian descent, wrote it first as a play; it won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2010.

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