Ilmar Taska

I had some reservations with this one but it is difficult to discuss those as they would basically give away most of the plot and the ending. A way to sum it up in a more general fashion is to say that it was a bit hard to suspend belief that some of the characters acted in the way that they did and that some of the events happened so easily.

Otherwise the atmosphere of the post-World War II Soviet occupation here was well realized and the insidious nature and psychological abuse of how the population was manipulated is effectively portrayed, especially in the disturbing use of children as innocent and indoctrinated informers. Some of the abrupt jump-cuts could be forgiven from a first-time novelist who is more known as a television and movie producer.… (mehr)