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When the Doves Disappeared, by Sofi Oksanen
I had to take a break as I was reading Sofi Oksanen's When the Doves Disappeared to read up on Estonia during World War II. It's the first book I've read that's set in the Baltic, let alone in the Baltic during the war. I didn't know, for example, that Estonia had been an independent country before the Soviet Union took advantage of the non-aggression pact to invade in 1940. When the Germans invaded in 1941, many Estonians—including several of the characters in When the Doves Disappeared—welcomed them as a means to regain their independence. Oksanen's novel revolves around Edgar Parts as he morphs from NKVD agent to German agent and back...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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