Purge

Oksanen, Sofi

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Old Aliide Truu lives alone in a cottage in the woods, pestered by flies she wishes would just leave her in peace. Her isolation is interrupted when she spies a young women under a tree in her garden. The girl is strange, arriving in the middle of the night, bruised dirty and shoeless. Aliide decides to take her in.

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Publish Date: 01/05/2011

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 370 g
Dimensions 30 × 130 × 200 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

390

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

894.54134 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K