The new book by Sofi Oksanen is about vomiting, but it does not make you sick

Abstract

This article is a review on the novel named Stalinin lehmät in Finnish, Stalin's Cows, written by the Finnish authoress Sofi Oksanen. The book was translated to Czech in 2012 by Linda Dejdarová and published by Odeon publishers.

Keywords

• Sofi Oksanen
• the Finnish novel Stalin's cows
• Finnish literature
• translations of Finnish fiction into Czech
• bulimia
• anorexia
• Finnish-Estonian relations
• Finnish-Estonian identity
• Estonian history during the Soviet era.