The Reconstruction

For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the apparently religiously inspired suicide of his daughter and her friends at a commune near Viljandi, but now he cannot do it any longer. He has to travel all over Estonia and even to France to talk to those who might remember anything relevant. Some of these people seem to have been waiting for him, others refuse to talk. And little by little, a bigger and quite unexpected picture starts to emerge.

From the late 1970s through 2011, the book spans the lives of two generations, the changes in the world at large and the Estonian society in particular, the transition from a world of rights and wrongs to a world where most things are neither, but the yearning for absolute truths still won't go away.

Author: Rein Raud
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/21/2017
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780916583804

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2017 pg. 36