NP Purge

[Robert Mahnke]

More high praise here:

http://bit.ly/9JuAkA

I'm going to have to pick this up.  Thanks, Heikki!

On 4/6/10, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> It is not that common, being able to unequivocally recommend
> a Finnish novel translated into English (and German etc etc).
>
> _Purge_ (_Puhdistus_, also "purification", "catharsis") by
> Sofi Oksanen - whose mother is Estonian, father Finnish - is
> such a novel. It is at once quotidian and extraordinary, bold
> and subtle, depicting three generations of Estonian women from
> the era of Stalinist purges through present-day trafficking.
> The novel just won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Purge-Sofi-Oksanen/dp/0802170773
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> Heikki
>