Sofi Oksanen3.9 The title of this bestseller from Sofi Oksanen alludes to the mass deportation to Stalin's gulags of those Estonians deemed to have collaborated during the 1941-44 German occupation. The purge is pivotal for the family at the centre of her story, but Oksanen also moves beyond the bitter dilemmas of collusion and resistance to deal with the more private horror of sexual violence during both peace and war.
The story spans 60 years, opening in 1992 after Estonia has regained its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Aliide Truu, an elderly widow, lives by canning fruit on the outskirts of a forest in western Estonia. She pursues a land restitution case and is tormented by stone-throwers who revile her communist history. Her daughter has moved to Helsinki because "Estonia was full of people who kept saying that they should have left for Finland or Sweden during the war", a regret "passed on to the next generation with their lullabies". The buried past resurfaces when Aliide takes in Zara, a bruised and dishevelled "dishrag of a girl" from Vladivostok who has turned up in her yard.
Роберто Савиано0.0 Recueil d'articles publiés sur 5 ans, où R. Saviano, auteur de Gomorra, parle de la solitude, de l'exil et de la reconnaissance internationale. Il raconte ses premiers pas dans la littérature, ses premières contributions à des magazines ou des sites Web, sa participation active à la vie médiatique italienne. Il confirme son intérêt pour les mafias, le commerce illégal et les trafics divers.
