FOX WAS EVER THE HUNTER - Hardcover

Müller, Herta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805093028 ISBN 13: 9780805093025

Verlag: METROPOLITAN BOOKS, 2016

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia

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 rest of the group.
One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it’s the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police—the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it’s hard to tell victim from perpetrator. And once again, Herta Müller uses language that displays the “concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose”—as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize—to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.

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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 translator in a machine factory and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceaucescu’s secret police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin.

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• Verlag: METROPOLITAN BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805093028
• ISBN 13: 9780805093025
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 237
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