The Reconstruction

The Reconstruction - Estonian Literature Series

First Dalkey Archive edition

Paperback (21 Apr 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the apparently religiously inspired suicide of his daughter and her friends at a commune near Viljandi, but now he cannot do it any longer. He has to travel all over Estonia and even to France to talk to those who might remember anything relevant. Some of these people seem to have been waiting for him, others refuse to talk. And little by little, a bigger and quite unexpected picture starts to emerge.

From the late 1970s through 2011, the book spans the lives of two generations, the changes in the world at large and the Estonian society in particular, the transition from a world of rights and wrongs to a world where most things are neither, but the yearning for absolute truths still won't go away. 

Book information

ISBN: 9780916583804
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Pub date:
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition
DEWEY: 894.54533
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 273
Weight: 384g
Height: 142mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 23mm