The Death of the Perfect Sentence
ABOUT
THE BOOK
This thoughtful spy novel cum love story is set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland, and Sweden. A group of young pro-independence dissidents devises a scheme for smuggling copies of KGB files out of the country, and their fates become entangled, through family and romantic ties, with security services never far behind them. Multiple viewpoints evoke the curious minutiae of everyday life, offer wry observations on the period through personal experience, and ask universal questions about how interpersonal relationships are affected when caught up in momentous historical changes. This sometimes wistful examination of how the Estonian Republic was reborn speaks also of the courage and complex chemistry of those who pushed against a regime whose then weakness could not have been known.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
In this book, we are thrust into an exciting adventure, which is at once a love story and a spy mystery. It is set in Estonia, Finland and Sweden, around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The tangled web of human relationships and political plotting are presented to us in a masterful way, by creating a distinct atmosphere, which is at once hopeful and fearful and wholly representative of the era of perestroika.