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This volume provides an analysis of stories' plot structures and their psychological meanings, attempting to distil all of storytelling down to a few archetypes.
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Our Assessment:
B : reasonably good presentation of two periods of history and their effects on individuals
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From the Reviews:
- "Shot through with sibling jealousy, the plot has a gothic power and implausibility, with people stifled in sealed chambers and corpses left under floorboards.
Aliide's own warped cruelty enables a brutal honesty about the moral ambiguities of collaboration, with Oksanen, a young Finnish writer of Finnish-Estonian parentage, brave enough to depict earlier generations as clearly culpable." - Maya Jaggi, The Guardian
- "Readers should brush up on Estonia's
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