Like Purge, When the Doves Disappeared switches between decades: the s and s. It pans out to take in a wider narrative of deportations. Author bio: Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. Purge was her first novel to appear in English. She has received numerous prizes for her. In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery.