[Kvartetti 01] • Purge

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.