Title: When the Doves Disappeared - Sofi Oksanen - book
Summary :
Occupation, resistance, and collaboration are the driving forces of this powerful novel, set in an Estonia trapped by both the communists and the Germans. To respond to the vagaries of history, each must choose a side, a path. Roland, the righteous man, relentlessly fights the invader; his cousin Edgar, a true chameleon, successively embraces the ideology of power; finally, Juudit, his wife, is torn between her sincere love for a German officer and the suffocating hypocrisy of a failed marriage. But who will be the winner of this bitter struggle?
