Böcker av Rein Raud

A political thriller set in the Baltic during the dying days of the Soviet Union. It follows the young pro-independence dissidents and their entangles lives, loyalties and betrayals. A very human and nuanced tale.

For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the apparently religiously inspired suicides of his daughter and her friends at a commune near Viljandi, but now he can postpone it no longer. The search for truth spans two generations and narrates the changes in the wider world and Estonian society in particular.

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds.