Sofi Oksanen: Purge
World Book Club
The Purge of Alida
BBC World Service listener Christina from Georgia asks Sophie about the title of her novel. Did you mean it to be cleansing rather than purge? I don't actually know all the different shades of these words in English, she says. The original title in Finnish is Borkwuristus - which can refer to ethical cleansing or Stalin's purchase.
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