The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu’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 Müller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Müller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.
Herta Müller
Traveling On One Leg
$34.95 – Paperback book / Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Appointment
$21.99 – Paperback book / Portobello
The winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
'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 questione... Buy or find out more →
The Passport
$21.99 – Paperback book / Profile
The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu’s dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the p... Buy or find out more →
Nadirs
$31.95 – Paperback book / University Of Nebraska Press
Herta Müller has been one of the most prolific and acclaimed German-language writers. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, this collection of ... Buy or find out more →
The Land Of Green Plums
$23.99 – Paperback book / Granta
Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderi... Buy or find out more →
Traveling On One Leg
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Northwestern Univ Pr
Characterised by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums, Travelling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland and identity. Buy or find out more →