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Using the pulsing narrative techniques of Nordic noir, Sofi Oksanen has crafted a complex and riveting account of what happened to an ordinary family in Estonia after Hitler and Stalin took an interest in the tiny Baltic state. The 2008 flap snap of Oksanen shows her to be a beautiful 33, yet she writes with authority about life in this battlefield of a country before, during and after World War II and before, during and after the Cold War.

The novel illuminates the impossible position people found themselves in when empire-building neighbors fought bitterly over their soil. Amid this geopolitical turmoil, two sisters’ romantic rivalry has weighty consequences over many decades. Brainy Aliide’s entire life is devoted to her love for her beautiful sister Ingel’s husband Hans. Aliide cruelly engineers a separation, but this does not bring her happiness. In fact, many years later it brings her comeuppance in the form of a grand-daughter she never knew existed.

Psychological crime novels from Scandinavia have attracted many readers in recent years, but “Purge” is actually about something beyond criminal horror. The creepy feeling you get turning Oksanen’s pages grows out of the reality she conveys. She convinces you that this is the way it was in that time and place.


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Purge Sofi Oksanen Lola Rogers 9780802170774 Books Reviews

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This complex and somewhat convoluted novel begins with a disheveled young girl (quickly revealed to be a sex-trafficking victim) appearing in the front yard of a woman living in a remote village of Estonia.
Eventually, as the story's complex relationships unfold over 3 generations spanning 1930-1990 (roughly), it is revealed that they are related.
Once a reader becomes engaged in the book (it took me about 50 pages because of the odd leaps back and forth in time), the suspense is relentless as the two women slowly come to understand the dark and shameful history that binds them.
Love, loss, lust, shame, guilt, murder, tragedy, rivalry, deceit during the occupation of Estonia by the USSR...and and exploration of the ends to which people had to go (and did) in order to survive.
Riveting reading, excellent writing...and very, very sad.
I found the central character of Aliinde to be confusing. She was very self-centered, jealous and vindictive, and the Communist takeover of her country, Estonia, gave her the opportunity to be as evil as she could manage to be. It isn't surprising that she marries a repulsive Communist agent for her own protection, nor that she would connive in getting rid of the sister that is married to the man she herself loves, but toward the end I found her behavior hard to comprehend. She seems to realize who the strange girl in her yard is, finally, but denies it; she also, though, helps the girl to escape just before committing a double murder and settling down to die with a long dead corpse hidden in a special room. The use of constant flashbacks ala the TV show Legends doesn't help; we go from her childhood to WWII to the Russian seizure of Estonia and the consequent events mentioned above, back and forth without any clear reason for each switch, and we switch points of view several times, from her to the girl in the yard. The final section drops narrative and consists of Soviet era documents regarding both the sister's husband and Aliinde's Communist agent husband, here referred to as a criminal. I didn't understand. I ended confused as to the author's purpose or what impression the reader was supposed to have at the end.
Recently I was caught with feelings of nostalgia. Not nostalgia in the way that you may think, light thoughts of a simpler self, but rather a pressing nostalgia evident of a different perspective. A fresh worldview that challenged the simplicity of my modern quality of living. For my life I could not remember where those feelings originated, until I came to the realization that I had obtained it years ago in the pages of a book. I'm sure many of us avid readers can relate to those lingering feelings that an excellent novel can elicit, even years in the future.
The source of my nostalgia was in a book about the Soviet occupation of Estonia. That is all I could remember at the time, but it was far more than good enough for the almighty power of Google's search algorithm. I saw the cover of the book and found myself five years in the past, wandering a bookstore somewhere in europe. I got the book because my mother, like Sofi is from Finland, which was a dumb reason in retrospect, but who needs a good reason to read a book (there are so many, and we all have so little time). Needless to say, I reordered it immediately. This book is beautiful to the point of sadness. Please take my advice and read this book. You will feel its touch years from now and you certainly will never regret it.
“Free Estonia!” These words rang out silently in the hearts of the Estonian peasants but not out loud for fear of brutal or deadly reprisals from Russian domination. Spanning over 50 years starting in the 1940’s, this shocking story packed with mesmerizing imagery began as simple storytelling but soon developed into a gripping, emotional tale told in the omniscient point of view and by the main characters.
Aliide – the lonely, jealous younger sister who was obsessed with Hans, her older sister’s husband. Zara – a terrified young girl forced into prostitution, a victim of sex trafficking. Ingel – the beautiful, “perfect” older sister who doesn’t realize her marriage and her life are in danger. Hans – a peasant revolutionist, devoted husband and father.
The backdrop is war, poverty and the struggle for survival. The conflict is family loyalty and the quest for freedom. The characters are vivid and totally believable. The prose is captivating and often alarmingly explicit. The author brings every chapter to life and weaves every aspect of the novel together bringing it to an unexpected and chilling end.
Using the pulsing narrative techniques of Nordic noir, Sofi Oksanen has crafted a complex and riveting account of what happened to an ordinary family in Estonia after Hitler and Stalin took an interest in the tiny Baltic state. The 2008 flap snap of Oksanen shows her to be a beautiful 33, yet she writes with authority about life in this battlefield of a country before, during and after World War II and before, during and after the Cold War.

The novel illuminates the impossible position people found themselves in when empire-building neighbors fought bitterly over their soil. Amid this geopolitical turmoil, two sisters’ romantic rivalry has weighty consequences over many decades. Brainy Aliide’s entire life is devoted to her love for her beautiful sister Ingel’s husband Hans. Aliide cruelly engineers a separation, but this does not bring her happiness. In fact, many years later it brings her comeuppance in the form of a grand-daughter she never knew existed.

Psychological crime novels from Scandinavia have attracted many readers in recent years, but “Purge” is actually about something beyond criminal horror. The creepy feeling you get turning Oksanen’s pages grows out of the reality she conveys. She convinces you that this is the way it was in that time and place.