Nadirs

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, "Nadirs" is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller'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. Zusammenfassung Juxtaposing reality and fantasy! nightmares and dark laughter! this title presents a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside.

Product details

• Authors: Herta Mueller, Herta Muller, Herta Müller
• Assisted by: Sieglinde Lug (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1999
• EAN: 9780803282544
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8254-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: European Women Writers; European Women Writers (Paperb; European Women Writers
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature