Purge

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.



Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland and is a graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy. She is the author of three novels that have been translated into English, Purge, When the Doves Disappeared, and Norma.

Lola Rogers is a Finnish to English literary translator living in Seattle.



A phenomenon



Powerful, passionately wrought, emotionally shattering, extraordinary



Finland's hottest crime writer



Essential reading: Purge is not a book to read last thing at night



Murder, sexual violence and political history combine to place Oksanen in the front rank of crime novelists