Herta Müller
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism. Romania--the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group.One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion...
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign, several young people leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or resist and die.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of Leo Auberg, who, after five torturous years in a post-war Soviet Union labor camp, succumbs to a hallucinatory existence where hunger and everyday objects take on anthropomorphic qualities.
4) The passport
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
93 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Passport is a novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausecu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Muller describes with poetic attention to the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten...