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Authors: Sofi Oksanen
When the Doves Disappeared
ALSO BY SOFI OKSANEN
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Translation copyright © 2015 by Lola Rogers
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House company. Originally published in Finland as
Kun kyyhkyset katosivat
by Like Kustannus Oy, Helsinki, in 2012.
Copyright © 2012 by Sofi Oksanen.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oksanen, Sofi, [date]
[Kum kyyhkyset katosivat. English]
When the doves disappeared : a novel / Sofi Oksanen
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-385-35017-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-385-35018-1 (eBook)
1. War stories. I. Title.
PH356.037K8613 2015
894′.54134—dc23 2014034970
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Jacket design by Kelly Blair
Map by Martin Lubikowski, ML Design, London, United Kingdom
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Contents
Western Estonia, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 1: Northern Estonia, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 2: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 3: Western Estonia, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 4: Reval, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 5: Taara Village, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 6: Taara Village, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 7: Reval, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 8: Taara Village, Estland General Region, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Chapter 9: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 10: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 11: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 12: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 13: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 14: Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Chapter 15: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 16: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 17: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 18: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 19: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 20: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 21: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 22: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 23: Vaivara, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 24: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 25: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 26: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 27: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 28: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 29: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 30: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 31: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 32: Reval & Taara Village, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 33: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 34: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 35: Vaivara, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 36: Klooga, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 37: Reval, Estland General Commissariat, Ostland National Commissariat
Chapter 38: Klooga, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 39: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 40: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 41: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 42: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 43: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 44: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 45: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 46: Tooru Village, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 47: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 48: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 49: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 50: Tooru Village, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Chapter 51: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Propaganda is the collapse of language.
—Lex Rubinstein, Warsaw, 2014
PROLOGUE
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