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Work InformationBaby Jane by Sofi Oksanen (2005)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is an often grim tale of a relationship that goes downhill due to one partner's anxiety disorder and the other's stress and resulting partner assault. Baby Jane meets Pigi when the latter is the "coolest lesbie" in Helsinki and alongside their relationship they go into an online business of selling women's underwear. This is the line of comic relief that carries on throughout the novel as you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the type of men who covet women's clothing (but not for their own female partners). This was Oksanen's second novel, which followed her debut of [book:Stalinin lehmät|2553575] (Stalin's Cows) which dealt with Estonian female immigrants to Finland and also anorexia disorder. She followed these up with her breakthrough novel [book:Purge|7029668] and then [book:When the Doves Disappeared|22318383] (both of them available in English translation) which carried on with themes of female oppression and Estonia under Communist & Nazi occupation. The latter 2 with "Stalin's Cows" are now seen as a Quartet with a 4th book that is yet to be published. Stray Observations • Many of the characters in the book go by nicknames. For instance, “Piki” (“Pigi” in the Estonian translation) means “pitch” as in tar/asphalt and she has a friend called “Bossa” (presumably from the dance 'bossa nova’ dance). “Baby Jane” is presumably the nickname of the protagonist although I didn’t actually notice it being used in the book itself. • I read “Baby Jane” in the Estonian translation by [author:Tiina Pappel|3410092]. It has had 3 Estonian editions already. • “Baby Jane” has not yet been published in English. A translated excerpt by Oksanen’s regular English translator [author:Lola Rogers|3132333] can be read here: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/from-baby-jane It is the first half of Chapter 2 which is a flash forward to an aftermath when the central relationship of Baby jane and Pigi has ended. • Some further English language information about "Baby Jane" is available at Oksanen’s literary agency http://www.salomonssonagency.se/books/baby-jane no reviews | add a review
A triangle drama in which a love story plays out in the shadow of Piki's illness, severe anxiety disorder. No library descriptions found. |
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* Mondjuk persze kérdés, hogy szabad-e ennyire összetartozónak venni ezt a két elemet – de nincs kétségem, hogy ez a könyv összetartozóként ábrázolja azt. Oksanen bennem azt a benyomást kelti, hogy kompetens a témában (ez a képessége tulajdonképpen a regény legnagyobb erénye) – hogy valóban az-e, arról nem tudok nyilatkozni. Egyszer ugyan a Szigeten voltam a Magic Mirror sátorban, de azt hiszem, ez nem ad elegendő alapot nekem arra, hogy megfelelő mélységben merjek értekezni a témáról. Ugyanakkor ez az összemosás azért elég rossz szájízt hagyott bennem. ( )