Video: Sofi Oksanen Reads From Purge
by Silvia Duarte / February 21, 2011 / No comments
In this video, Sofi Oksanen reads an excerpt of her novel Purge, in which a young woman escaping the sex-slave trade ends up in the backyard of an Estonian woman who survived sexual assault at the hands of Soviet occupiers.
Purge was ranked No. 1 on the Finnish bestseller list when it was first published and it has been translated into 25 languages.
Oksanen visited Sampsonia Way on April 27 of 2010 to give a reading with Christos Tsiolkas and Tommy Wieringa. The event was sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh in partnership with PEN/America.
While she was here, Oksanen sat down for a conversation with Sampsonia Way editor Elizabeth Hoover.
