Nadirs

Nadirs - Paperback

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Nadirs - Paperback

Nadirs - Paperback

by Herta Muller
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by Herta Muller (Author), Sieglinde Lug (Translator), Sieglinde Lug (Afterword by)

Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a child's often nightmarish impressions of life in her village. Seamlessly mixing reality with dream-like images, they brilliantly convey the inner, troubled life of a child and, at the same time, capture the violence and corruption of life under an oppressive state.

Author Biography

Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been one of the most prolific and acclaimed German-language writers of the last two decades. Born in 1953 in the Banat, a German-language region of Romania, she emigrated to West Berlin in 1987 and currently lives in Berlin. Sieglinde Lug is a professor emerita of German and comparative literature at the University of Denver.

Number of Pages: 126
Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.01 x 5.34 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 1999
ISBN9780803282544
Author Herta Muller
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages126
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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HERTA MÜLLER is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the European Literature Prize. She is the author of, among other books, The Hunger Angel and The Land of Green Plums. Born in Romania in 1953, Müller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's secret police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin.

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