This is not an easy read. Nor it is a quick one. Even though this book is classified as a novel, in reality it is more like a diary, where a particular person reminisce about her past. The story is about an era that is not widely discussed by the people who grew up in it. Life in the Eastern Blok...
Otroligt bra. Mycket hög litterär klass, ska läsa mer Oksanen. This was very good. I'm glad it was translated into English so I could read it.
Uncomftable but a good read. I read this book twice, it was that worth it!
This book was so far out of my reading comfort zone. I need to digest this a bit! This book was so far out of my reading comfort zone. I need to digest this a bit!
He was on time. The fabric of his pocket had become stretched from the repetition of this impatient gesture; he spent every day counting the hours until his next meeting. Every crumb of information he’d managed to get was doubly exciting because every matter to report felt like a personal gift to...
—Paul-Eerik RummoMay 30, 1950 Free Estonia! Liide quit her job—the one where she went around tormenting people with fees and quotas. She wouldn’t tell me why. Maybe what I said sank in. When I said a job like that was nothing but working for monsters. Or maybe somebody gave her a drubbing. I know...