It is not uncommon for me to read a book in two days, but "The Purge" by Sofi Oksanen, the latest book I have read, has actually "been" with me since then, which is a lot less likely to happen.
Much has been said and written about this fabulous young writer, I had unfortunately never heard of before, though the book was first published in 2008 (the first edition in Portuguese having been published in October 2011) ... and the truth is I don't feel I can describe how I felt when reading this "gripping portraits of women and the female experience of the loss of freedom" set in two completely different periods of time - the wartime 1940's Estonia during the Soviet occupation and the 90's with the reality of victims' trafficking.
Having won numerous literary prizes "The Purge" is " a sheer masterpiece ... a marvel " in the words of the writer Nancy Huston and according to the Times its author "has become a literary phenomenon".
A book worth reading more than once ...
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