PURGE

New York City, NY: Grove Press, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Grove Press, 2010. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 400 pages. The author's first novel to be translated into English. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited print run by Grove Press under the Black Cat Imprint as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the author and publisher. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its Uncorrected Proof format, Sofi Oksanen's "Puhdistus" in a felicitous English translation. The Finnish novelist's dazzling, award-winning breakthrough. "A breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide's home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other's motives. Gradually, their stories emerge, the culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out during the worst years of Estonia's Soviet occupation. Sofi Oksanen establishes herself as one the most important voices of her generation with this intricately woven tale whose stakes are almost unbearably high from the first page to the last. A fiercely compelling and damning novel about the corrosive effects of shame, and of life in a time and place where to survive is to be implicated" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Sofi Oksanen collectors. This is a copy of the Uncorrected Proof, indicated as such on the Front Cover. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Uncorrected Proof available online and despite its imperfection (a cut on the otherwise intact Back Cover) is still in fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. Copies available online are in innumerable subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A near-fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SOFI OKSANEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0802170773.