The Saviour of Lasnamäe
by Mari Saat
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Natalya Filippovna may be a middle-aged, single mother and member of the Russian minority in Estonia, but she is content with her simple life. She has a flat, a job at an electronics factory and, most importantly, she has her bright and ambitious teenaged daughter, Sofia. Money is tight, but they make do - that is, until Sofia requires a lengthy, expensive dental procedure and Natalya loses her job. With bills piling up and Sofia's dental procedure only part finished, Natalya reluctantly show more accepts an undesirable mode of income. As she and Sofia adjust to their changing situations, Natalya falls for a mysterious, kind man, and her life takes yet another unexpected turn. The Savior of Lasnam won the Estonian Cultural Endowment's Prize for Literature in 2008. The author, Mari Saat, also won the prize in 1992 and 1999. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Saviour of Lasnamäe
- Original title
- Lasnamäe lunastaja
- Original publication date
- 2008
- Original language
- Estonian
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.545 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Finnic languages Estonian
- LCC
- PH666.29 .A17 .L3713 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Other Finnic languages and dialects Estonian
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- English, Estonian, Finnish
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