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Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together—looking at their own children being raised by other people.

To kvinder, Olenka og Darja, mødes i en hundepark i Helsinki i 2016. I tavshed sidder de på en bænk og betragter en familie, der lufter deres hund; mor, far, to børn. Kvinderne kender hinanden. I hjemlandet Ukraine var de begge involveret i den fremvoksende fertilitetsindustri, den ene som donor, den anden som organisator. Nu, ti år senere, synes rollerne at være byttet om. Og hende der engang var donor, har tilsyneladende både mulighed for og en stærk vilje til at gøre størst mulig skade.

It's 1941. In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin, Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime. In 1963 Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain.

Deep in an Estonian forest, two women - one young, one old - are hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors, men who know about inflicting punishment. Aliide offers refuge, but not safety: She has her own secrets, traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country’s brutal Soviet years. Both women have suffered lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.

When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood - and the moods of those around her - moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.

En una despoblada zona rural de Estonia, en 1992, recuperada la independencia de la pequeña república báltica, Aliide Truu, una anciana que malvive sola junto al bosque, encuentra en su jardín a una joven desconocida, exhausta y desorientada. Se trata de Zara, una veinteañera rusa, víctima del tráfico de mujeres, que ha logrado escapar de sus captores y ha acudido a la casa de Aliide en busca de una ayuda que necesita desesperadamente. 

Olenka da por terminada su carrera de modelo. Tras probar su suerte en varias capitales europeas sin éxito, decide regresar a su Ucrania natal. El panorama allí no es mucho más prometedor que la vida que deja atrás, pero confiando en su don para los idiomas, y en el bagaje cultural que se lleva de Occidente, Olenka aspira a un trabajo digno.

Tras irrumpir en el panorama literario internacional con Purga, que vendió más de un millón de ejemplares en más de cuarenta países y recibió el aplauso unánime de los lectores y la crítica, además de numerosos premios y honores, Sofi Oksanen, una de las principales voces de la narrativa finlandesa actual, vuelve a sorprendernos con Norma, una novela intensa y asombrosa que combina con gran eficacia la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social.