Sofi Oksanen, Author, Lola Rogers, Translator , trans. from the Finnish by Lola Rogers. Grove/Black Cat $14.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7077-4
Oksanen's uneven first novel to be translated into English follows one family through three generations during the Soviet occupation of the Baltics. In 1992, Aliide Truu finds a ragged and abused young woman collapsed near her rural Estonian...
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Sofi Oksanen, trans. from Finnish by Lola Rogers. Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-35017-4
During and after the Second World War, the boundaries and power structures of Europe changed dramatically. In this fourth novel, Oksanen, who has won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize and Budapest Grand Prize, traces those changes through the lives...
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Sofi Oksanen, trans. from Finnish by Owen F. Witesman. Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-49352-1
At the center of Oksanen’s ambitious contemporary fantasy novel is the strange hair of a woman named Norma. It grows peculiarly quickly and sometimes uncontrollably, moves in ways that reflect Norma’s emotions, and grants her far-ranging abilities...
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Sofi Oksanen, trans. from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman. Knopf, $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-65947-1
This bleak psychological thriller from Finnish writer Oksanen (Norma) opens in 2016 at a Helsinki dog park, where Olenka is surveilling a couple and their two kids. One of the children is biologically hers—the result of a sale to the Ukrainian egg...
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