Stalini lehmad - Sofi Oksanen

Tallinn, 1971. At a restaurant dance, Katariina meets a Finn who is one of the builders of the Viru Hotel. The young people become a couple and decide to get married. After going through the bureaucracy, the woman manages to move to Finland, but she does not find much happiness. The past haunts her everywhere. Her daughter Anna is born in Finland, and she has a unique way of thinking. She is raised as a Finn, but Anna is more drawn to Estonia, which she considers her own world. The father of the family becomes estranged from his wife and child, goes to Russia to build and have fun as he pleases. Years pass, the action reaches the present day, and Anna has developed a serious eating disorder, which is the second main theme of the book. What will become of Anna, whose relationships are complicated, who has to live with her illness and adapt to a changing world?