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Informationen zum Autor Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. Purge was her first novel to appear in English. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix Femina, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She lives in Helsinki. Klappentext From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge, comes a deliciously dark drama that is a searing portrait of the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for beauty. After the suicide of her mother, NORMA is left alone with their secret - her hair reacts to changes in mood, moving of its own accord - but quickly realises a sinister truth lies beneath her life. From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared , comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty. Zusammenfassung From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.

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• Authors: Sofi Oksanen, Oksanen Sofi
• Assisted by: Owen F. Witesman (Translation), Owen Frederick Witesman (Translation), Witesman Owen F. (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781786491985
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-198-5
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Fantasy, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Fiction in translation, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Magical Realism, Adventure fiction, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls