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Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. Purge was her first novel to appear in English. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix Femina, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She lives in Helsinki.Owen F. Witesman is a professional literary translator with a master's in Finnish and Estonian area studies and a PhD...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge, comes a deliciously dark drama that is a searing portrait of the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for beauty. After the suicide of her mother, NORMA is left alone with their secret - her hair reacts to changes in mood, moving of its own accord - but quickly realises a sinister truth lies beneath her life.