Sofi Oksanen
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland...
2) Purge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aliide Truu, an older woman guilty of crimes during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, takes in a young woman, Zara, who is trying to escape a sex-trafficking ring, and as they work through their suspicion, the two rediscover a tragic family history from the past.
3) Dog park
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a major internationally acclaimed writer--the author of Purge--who is poised to break out in the U.S. comes a ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market. Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may...
4) Norma
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando el cuerpo de Anita Ross es encontrado en el metro de Helsinki, todos los temores se confirman: la mujer acaba de tirarse a las vias. Pero Norma, su unica hija, se muestra incredula, ya que su madre jamas la hubiera dejado sola con su secreto: sus cabellos viven, experimentan emociones, cobran impulso y crecen tan rapidamente que hay que cortarlos varias veces al dia. Dispuesta a todo con tal de saber la verdad, la joven decide reconstruir...
5) Norma
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her...