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Author_Herta Muller
Autobiographical Stories
Banat
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Corruption
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Female Author
Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature Winner
Romania
Romanian
Short Stories
Story collection
Translation
Violence
Women Author
World Literature
Product details
- ISBN 9780803282544
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1999
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
