, the young author Sofi Oksanen Finland is still one of the European literary sensations, one of those novels that succeed in virtually all countries, has in fact won the European award for Best Novel 2010. In the play, match the lives of Zara, a young Russian woman who has fled from gangs trafficking and prostitution, and Aliide, an old Estonian who lives in an isolated village. The story is told through short chapters and jumps in time, so agile and clever, and the plot unfolds we gradually the relationship of these two women seem so different, so distant in time and circumstances, and background of brutal purges Stalin in the countries of the Soviet orbit, which is the time they lived Aliide the girl and her sister. Purge is a history of violence, revenge, jealousy, mystery, is a successful story every day of the Iron Curtain countries, specifically the Baltics, something that we're not informed, and irrefutable evidence that with proper motivation anyone is incorruptible. A very good novel, entertaining and intelligent. And a novelist who think it is worth continuing.
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