There is a read-along for Sofi Oksanen "Purge" where several people over the country are reading one of the bestsellers called Purge. Serious but good book written by finnish-estonian author Sofi Oksanen (1977). Purge is her 3rd novel and got a Nordic Councel Literature Prize this year. Strongly recommended!
Another recommendation about estonians whould be My Estonia, written y Justin Petrone. Absolutely different from Purge, funny but true stories about the way we live :).
Copy from Amazon:
Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of a dark winter and must survive in Estonia, the "least fortunate Scandinavian country," a land where people eat blood sausage and jellied meat, drink warm bread, and are always on time; a place where every family is haunted by the past and is struggling to catch up to the present. Over the course of one year, so much happens in this tiny northern land that it stops being foreign. Estonia and the college grad turned journalist become intimately acquianted. Inseparable. And in the end, he comes to love it, even when they do not want to let him back into their country.
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