Sofi Oksanen is perhaps the most prominent figure in the field of modern Finnish literature. She is young, but she has already written three novels, the last of which, Purification, has been translated into twenty-five languages, and in her homeland became a bestseller and received seven different literary awards, including the main Finnish award in the field of literature, the Finnish Prize. .The novel “Purification” is dedicated to the history of Estonia in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the biased gaze of a simple Estonian peasant woman, all the horrors of the repressive system are shown. The Russian reader is given a unique opportunity to get acquainted with this characteristic human document.