The Finnish writer with Estonian roots, Sophie Oksanen, despite her youth, has already won worldwide recognition. Winner of the Finnish Runeberg and Finlandia Prizes, the French Femina Prize, the European Book Prize (Belgium), the Nordic Council Prize and the Swedish Academy Literature Prize, often called the Little Nobel Prize, Oksanen has also been awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland and the Estonian Order of the Earth Cross Maria. “When the Pigeons Disappeared” is her third novel about Estonia, which was incorporated into the USSR in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany, and re-entered the Soviet Union at the end of the war. The action takes place in the forties and sixties of the twentieth century. The beautiful Judith and cousins Roland and Edgar find themselves in a whirlpool of events. War, occupation, change of government every time force them to make their choice, and their paths diverge at all the crossroads of history. However, love and hate bind them so tightly that their destinies are intertwined in the most incredible way. Translation: A. Sidorova