Books by Herta Müller (6)


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El hombre es un gran faisán en el mundo by Herta Müller ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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The Passport is the disturbing portrait of the disintegration of a Germanic community in rural Rumania, a town trapped by oppression and inconceivable harshness. In a tale that becomes a poem thanks to the clarity of its images and the rhythm and cadence of its prose, M�ller’s forceful and unvarnished hand sketches the history of a town and its inhabitants, replicating their air of despair, their conflicts, superstitions and dreams.

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Niederungen by Herta Müller DE

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Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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I korte prosastykker fortælles om den hårde tilværelse for det tysktalende mindretal i regionen Banat i efterkrigstidens kommunistiske Rumænien. En skånselsløs og samtidig poetisk skildring af et glemt land

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The Appointment by Herta Müller EN

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Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major Albu, her int... continue
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The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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“VIVIDLY POETIC . . . MÜLLER HAS EXERCISED HER VOICE WITH A FURY THAT VIBRATES OFF THE PAGE.”—THE BOSTON GLOBE 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 the others. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox-fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion, it’s the hind leg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a taunting sign that she is being watched by the secret police—the fox was ever the hunter. Im... continue
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The Land of Green Plums : A Novel by Herta Müller EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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 r
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Todo lo que tengo lo llevo conmigo by Herta Müller ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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Valiéndose de las conversaciones y de las detalladas notas de la vida en el campo de concentración tomadas por su amigo, el poeta Oskar Pastior, la premio Nobel rumana Herta Müller indaga en la historia de represión y persecución sufrida por los alemanes rumanos en tiempos de Stalin. «Una conmovedora obra que consigue, con un lenguaje de enorme sensibilidad, traer luz a los tiempos oscuros.» Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung «Su voz posee el don de la poesía, de una lírica concisa y plena.» ABC «El libro más importante de esta especialista en las deformaciones del alma humana y constituye, sin du... continue