
Nadirs
Herta Muller(Author)
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-0-8032-8254-4 (ISBN)
Description
Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta MUEller'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.
Reviews / Votes
"The world of the village, as Muller celebrates it, rustles on these pages. Each line, each paragraph, such a wedding of insight and the fantastic that I could scarcely hold the book without trembling."-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered -- All Things Considered Alan CheuseMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-8254-4 (9780803282544)
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Persons
Herta Mueller, 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.