Mu sõraline sõber

The manuscript that won third place in the Estonian Novel Society's 2008 novel competition. Jury member Peeter Helme: "Birk Rohelend is a skilled deceiver. In fact, I would never have guessed when reading the manuscript that the author was a woman. Hats off! An author who knows how to lead the reader down the wrong path is talented!"

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You can get everything for money. The easiest way to get it is from those who need money. There is a fixed price for escaping despair - everything you considered yours. It may be true that you cannot get anything "real" for money; but don't fool yourself into thinking that you can even distinguish between appearance and reality. Any relationship between a person and a person is a commercial transaction: I consume you, you consume me; I give you something that belongs to me, and in return I take a piece of you.