Old Aliide Truu lives alone in a cottage in the woods, pestered by flies she wishes would just leave her in peace. Her isolation is interrupted when she spies a young women under a tree in her garden. The girl is strange, arriving in the middle of the night, bruised dirty and shoeless. Aliide decides to take her in.
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 goes into hiding, while Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime. 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth ...
From a major internationally acclaimed writer - author of Purge - comes a ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. 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 own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months-- sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files-- Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.
The book offers a compelling analysis of Vladimir Putin's war on women, highlighting how sexual violence has been systematically weaponized throughout modern Russian history. It combines journalistic integrity with a feminist call to action, revealing the political motivations behind this strategy and its implications for women's rights and societal power dynamics in Russia. Through this lens, the author critiques the intersection of gender and politics in a regime that seeks to maintain control through oppression.
Mrazivý esej, v němž autorka ukazuje, jak Rusko na Ukrajině opakuje svůj starý návod – ten, který poprvé použila Kateřina Veliká na Krymu v roce 1783, a znovu – ovšem ve větším a krvavějším měřítku – Sovětský svaz za Stalinovy éry. Rusko se nikdy nevyrovnalo se svou imperialistickouminulostí. Místo toho se Kreml soustředil na vytváření nepřátel, které využívá k vytváření základů pro sexuální násilí, jež používá ve válkách, a k dehumanizaci těch, kteří se stali oběťmi porušování lidských práv. Pokrok v oblasti rovnosti žen a mužů v Putinově Rusku upadá. Rusko umlčuje ženy, používá znásilnění jako zbraň a své oběti ponižuje v médiích a vyhrožuje jim dalším sexuálním násilím.
Qu'est-il arrivé à Piki, la fille la plus cool d'Helsinki, qui vit désormais recluse dans son appartement ? Submergée par de terribles crises d'angoisse, elle ne parvient plus à faire face au quotidien. Sans compter les problèmes financiers. Comment gagner sa vie lorsqu'on refuse d'interagir avec le monde ? La narratrice, son grand amour, tente de l’aider comme elle peut. Ensemble, elles vont monter une entreprise d'un goût douteux pour exploiter la faiblesse des hommes. Au mépris d’elle-même, elle va essayer de sauver Piki.
