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Purge
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The main character in this fictional account of recent Estonian history is by turns heroic, blind, idealistic, stupid, endearing, despicable, faithful, disloyal, good, evil. And yet the author manages to make us love her in spite of everything. Oksanen also creates a very coherent story out of what at first appears to be no more than a series of horrifying fragments. A story that unfortunately resonates with a lot of truth. These things happened and are still happening. Will the Horror mankind is capable of ever be purged?
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May 27, 2011
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May 27, 2011
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June 15, 2011
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Théo d'Or
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Jan 30, 2020 06:00AM
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so".
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That is a very apt quote to sum up this book, Theodor.
You capture the complexity of Aliide Truu's acts and character excellently, Fionnuala - it would be hard not to root for her in spite of the choices she made to survive in extreme difficult circumstances, indeed.
Ilse wrote: "You capture the complexity of Aliide Truu's acts and character excellently, Fionnuala - it would be hard not to root for her in spite of the choices she made to survive in extreme difficult circumstances..."I'd almost forgotten this book, read 11 years ago, but only 'almost', Ilse, because a few images from it are fixed in my mind forever. One of them is from the opening pages and is surprisingly benign considering what comes later: I can still see the main character trying to chase a bluebottle fly out of her kitchen!
