Purge (novel)
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"Puhdistus" redirects here. For the film based on the novel, see Purge (2012 film).
Purge (Finnish: Puhdistus) is a novel by Finnish-Estonian[2] writer Sofi Oksanen, which has been translated into thirty-eight languages.[2] Oksanen's third Finnish-language novel, Purge was published in 2008 and is based upon her original play of the same name, staged at the Finnish National Theatre in 2007.[3]
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Author | Sofi Oksanen |
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Original title | Puhdistus |
Translator | Lola Rogers |
Country | Finland |
Language | Finnish |
Genre | Historical novel, Crime novel[1] |
Publisher | WSOY |
Publication date | 2008 |
Media type | Print (Hardback; Paperback) |
Pages | 380 pp |
ISBN | 951-0-33973-3 |
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Purge is a story of two women forced to confront their own dark pasts, of collusion and resistance, of rape and sexual slavery set against the backdrop of the Soviet occupation of Estonia.[4][5]