Sofi Oksanen

En esta novela de múltiples lecturas y matices, que por su originalidad y maestría nos asombra y sobrecoge, Oksanen traza los efectos devastadores del miedo, la humillación y la inagotable capacidad humana para la supervivencia. Muy raramente surge una novela que suscite un entusiasmo tan unanime como esta tercera obra de ficcion de la escritora finlandesa Sofi Oksanen, joven prodigio de la narrativa nordica. Merecedora de los premios mas importantes de su pais -el Mika Waltari, el Finlandia, el Runeberg-, asi como del renombrado Premio de Literatura del Consejo Nordico, Purga ha sido el libro revelacion en Francia, donde se han vendido mas de doscientos mil ejemplares y ha obtenido el prestigioso Premio Femina de literatura extranjera. Por ultimo, fue galardonada con el Premio a la Mejor Novela Europea del Año 2010. En una despoblada zona rural de Estonia, en 1992, recuperada la independencia de la pequeña republica baltica, Aliide Truu, una anciana que malvive sola junto al bosque, encuentra en su jardin a una joven desconocida, exhausta y desorientada. Se trata de Zara, una veinteañera rusa, victima del trafico de mujeres, que ha logrado escapar de sus captores y ha acudido a la casa de Aliide en busca de una ayuda que necesita desesperadamente. A medida que Aliide supera la desconfianza inicial, y se establece un fragil vinculo entre las dos mujeres, emerge un complejo drama de viejas rivalidades y deslealtades que han arruinado la vida de una familia.La critica ha dicho...La novela brilla por su estructura, saltos temporales, ambientacion historica o dosificacion del misterio. Pero esas dos formas de quebrarse una mujer, por dentro y por fuera, adquieren categoria de gran literatura. Por eso Purga sigue y seguira ganando premios. Por eso hay que leerla.Ricard Ruiz, Que Leer Una leccion magistral de tecnica narrativa [...] Dificilmenteolvidaremos, despues de cerrar el libro, los personajes y sus historias [...] una novela de lo mas recomendable.Laura Freixas, La Vanguardia Gracias a su esplendida estructura temporal y a un desvelamiento bien dosificado delos hechos por medio de capitulos cortos, la novela permite al lector recomponer el puzle.Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia Purga es una novela de sentimientos que abre la puerta al pasado y motiva a detenerse en el presente.Emma Rodriguez, El Mundo"Una obra maestra. Espero que todos los lectores del mundo lean Purga."Nancy Huston Apasionante, original, soberbia. Es dificil encontrar adjetivos que hagan justicia a esta novela premiada internacionalmente.KulturSpiegel SofiOksanen se ha convertido en un verdadero fenomeno literario. Purga es un trabajo brillante que no abandonara facilmente la imaginacion del lector.The Times Se lee sin aliento y con los dedos agarrotados. Resulta casi insoportable, pero no podemos hacer otra cosa que seguir adelante hasta el final. [...] Extraordinariamente buena.Berlingke TidendeUna novela dura y hermosa al mismo tiempo. Uno queda atrapado en su admirable descripcion del miedo y la mentira.Livres Hebdo Una novelabrillante [...] Oksanen ha creado una obra de arte conmovedora y sensible a los infortunios ajenos.The New Republic ...

Estonie, 1941. Roland et son cousin Edgar ont rejoint les « frères de la forêt » et luttent avec la résistance estonienne pour repousser l’Armée rouge. Quand les troupes allemandes envahissent l’Esto

La joven y bella Anna no está dispuesta a creer en lasmalas consecuencias de la bulimia salvaje que padece. ¿Qué puede tener demalo algo que le proporciona un placer comparable al sexo y hace que se sienta divina? Pero se ha perdido en sus obsesiones: necesita controlar su destino y no quiere repetir los errores de sumadre, Katariina, que huyó desde la Estonia soviética a Finlandia, y allí, tras ocultar su identidad, tuvo a Anna de unmatrimonio con un borracho que desapareció sin dejar rastro. Anna tiene grabada a fuego en sumemoria una visita clandestina a Estonia para ver a su abuela Sofia, víctima del régimen estalinista. Tal vez ahí se encuentre la clave de todo.

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 realise that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining.

From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of womens bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.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 mothers funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anitas final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realise that her mother knew more about her hairs powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Normas imagining.

An ambiguous horror story about egg donorship and the black market, it keeps the reader equally balanced between frustration and fascination. Daily MailAn intricate, textured slow-burner that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters rule and the exploitation of the female body is big businessGuardianHelsinki, 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 be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together - looking at their own children being raised by other people.Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, Dog Park is a keenly observed, dark and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered in a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. Oksanen brings fearless psychological acuity to this captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still hunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; 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 Rolands, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.

A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, nothing else but meat. Deep in an overgrown Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara, a murderer and a victim of sex-trafficking, is on the run from brutal captors. Aliide, a communist sympathizer and a blood traitor, has endured a life of abuse and the country''s brutal Soviet years. Their survival now depends on exposing the one thing that kept them hidden... the truth.

Les témoins sont unanimes : Anita Ross s'est jetée sur les rails du métro de Helsinki. Norma, sa fille unique, refuse de croire au suicide. Anita ne l'aurait jamais laissée seule avec son secret : ses cheveux sont vivants, ils ressentent des emotions, s'animent et poussent si vite qu'elle est obligee de les couper toutes les heures. Prete a tout pour connaitre la verite, Norma decide de retracer les derniers jours de sa mere, allant jusqu'a se faire embaucher dans le salon de coiffure ou elle travaillait. Ses decouvertes font ressurgir un passe trouble qui n'est pas sans susciter l'attention d'un puissant clan de la mafia locale.

Estonia, 1992,pouco tempo despois da independencia do país como república bática. Aliide Truu, unha anciá solitaria que vive nunha afastada rexión, atopa de mañá no seu xardín a Zara, unha rapaza rusa que, vitima do trafico de mulleres, precisa da sua axuda para non volver caer nas mans dos seus captores. Asi comenza esta historia que se abre camiño entre as traizons, a violencia e o medo para permitir que estas duas mulleres acaden finalmente a purificacion, a purga completa das suas vidas.Cun vibrante ritmo e unha intriga que se desvela devagar ata a resolucion do enigma nas ultimas paxinas, a narracion alterna presente e pasado para denunciar tanto a explotacion sexual na Europa contemporanea como os totalitarismos politicos do seculo XX, amosando de que xeito a represion que sufriu Estonia durante os anos de ocupacion sovietica derivou nun desarraigo da poboacion autoctona que chega ata os nosos dias.

1992an gaude eta Estoniak eskuratu berri du independentzia. Hango nekazari paraje isolatu batean neska bat agertu da; Aliide Truu amonaren baratzean datza akituta. Zara du izena neskak eta hogeita hiru urte ditu. Bahitzaileen (emakume-trafikatzaileen) atzaparretatik ihes eginez iritsi da amonaren etxaurrera. Honek bere etxean jaso du eta poliki-poliki bi emakumeen arteko solasak neskaren iragan gertura ekarriko ditu. Alemaniatik zetorren ihesean. Eta solasak Zararen familiaren inguruko drama gogorretan barneratuko gaitu. Kapitulu laburrak eta estilo zuzena darabil idazleak. Oso errealista. Beldurraren eta umilazioaren gainetik, ordea, bizitzeko gogo suharra aterako da garaile.

Narrativa en ingles

A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, nothing else but meat.Deep in an overgrown Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara, a murderer and a victim of sex-trafficking, is on the run from brutal captors. Aliide, a communist sympathizer and a blood traitor, has endured a life of abuse and the countrys brutal Soviet years. Their survival now depends on exposing the one thing that kept them hidden... the truth.

An ambiguous horror story about egg donorship and the black market, it keeps the reader equally balanced between frustration and fascination. ' Daily Mail'An intricate, textured slow-burner that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters rule and the exploitation of the female body is big business' GuardianHelsinki, 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 be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together - looking at their own children being raised by other people.Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, Dog Park is a keenly observed, dark and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered in a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. Oksanen brings fearless psychological acuity to this captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still hunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.

Le corps d’Anita Ross vient d’être retrouvé dans le métro de Helsinki. Les témoins sont unanimes : elle s’est jetée sur les rails. Norma, sa fille unique, refuse d’y croire. Anita ne l’aurait jamais

Helsinki, 2016. Olenka, assise sur un banc dans un jardin public, observe un couple et leurs deux enfants en train de jouer avec leur chien. Une femme vient s’asseoir à ses côtés. Olenka sursaute : m