Sofi Oksanen: Purge
World Book Club
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Alida Perd's Reflections on the 1990s and the Soviet Occupation
Perd: "Alida recognized the smell of women on the street, the smell that said that something similar had happened to them" When she found herself in proximity with one of those women, Alida tried to stay as far away from her as she could. She avoided village community events because you never knew when one of those men might happen by a man she would remember for all eternity. Well, let's hear another reading from Perd.
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