4th cover: 1992, end of the summer in Estonia. The Soviet window cleaning equipment Union collapsed

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4th cover: 1992, end of the summer in Estonia. The Soviet window cleaning equipment Union collapsed and the population celebrates the departure of the Russians. Except the old Aliide, which fears looting and holed lives on his farm. When in his garden Zara, a young woman that Russian mafia forced her into prostitution in Berlin, battered, fleeing, she is reluctant to accept. Yet friendship eventually arise between Zara and her. Aliide also experienced violence and humiliation ... Through these destinies full of sound and fury, that's fifty years of Estonian history that scrolls Sofi Oksanen.
My opinion:.. "Aliide Aliide Truu Zara's hands detached themselves from the bench Aliide Truu was alive, standing before her Aliide Truu this house lived the situation was equally strange that the language in the mouth of Zara The.... -C vaguely remembered window cleaning equipment how she had picked the right road and weeping willows in the right way, but not if she understood that she had finally found the right house, had it landed at night on the door without knowing that do, if she had thought wait until morning, to spare the people the fear of a nocturnal visitor had she tried to go to sleep in the stable, if it had slipped a look in the kitchen without daring to knock on the door if she had even considered knocking on the door, if it had envisaged anything. " (Le Livre de Poche - p.31) 1992 Aliide Truu lives alone in its Estonian farm. One morning she found a young woman lying in her garden. Against all odds, she agrees to help. 1991 Zara living with her family in Vladivostok. His mother works hard and cause little, her grandmother spends his time looking out the window. The young woman dreams of going to work in the west, where the money is flowing, where dreams are possible. 1950: Hans Pekk is alone, he is locked up. Not to sink into madness, he wrote. 1944 Aliide and Ingel are two young women that the war has severely tested. window cleaning equipment Living alone in their country house with Linda, the daughter of Ingel, they must support to survive.
How many opinions have bloomed on the blogosphere about this novel? I do not venture to count them as there was but I still add my contribution to the slew blogosphérique to confirm that this novel is to read ... ;-) Through fate and Aliide Zara, the author discusses many subjects: violence against women in times of war, fear, humiliation, the rise of an ideology that does not support competition window cleaning equipment and crushes all dissent to the regime, window cleaning equipment blind love that mocks morality and ignores the good and evil, survival whatever the cost, lying ... But if Sofi Oksanen so intertwined eras, it is also to give us almost a Half a century of Estonian history without one bored for one second: for who, like me, did not know this country is masterful.
Life has not been kind to Aliide and Zara and their stories, spaced about fifty years, window cleaning equipment are extremely poignant: impossible not to get upset. "In the street, she recognized the women she sniffed it had happened to them the same stuff each trembling hand, she guessed.. That one too Each burst that caused the cry of a Russian window cleaning equipment soldier, or every thrill caused by the noise of boots. That one too? All those who could not help but cross the street as soon as they crossed militiamen or soldiers. All those that were seen in the size of their coats, they wore several pairs of panties All those who were not able to look into his eyes Had they said the same thing to this, they had said to him.. "Every time you go to bed with your husband, you remember me? "" (Le Livre de Poche - p.191) But as I became very attached to the character of Zara, as I had much difficulty understanding Aliide and despite its dramatic past, I adhere in any way to his actions, especially after reading window cleaning equipment the last pages of the novel, window cleaning equipment when all is revealed to us. Also, unlike many readers Aliide did not seem friendly. But that did not spoil my reading pleasure.
Finally, a few words on very original construction of the novel: the image of a pol plot