Herta Müller

Widely regarded as Muller's best novel, The Land of Green Plums is a beautifully written and unflinching portrayal of life under the totalitarian regime of Ceausescu's Romania.

The Land of Green Plums

Philip Boehm

The Nobel Prize-winning author of The Land of Green Plums presents an evocative portrait of life in a post-World War II Soviet Union labor camp that traces the experiences of 17-year-old Leo Auberg, who throughout five torturous years succumbs to a hallucinatory existence where hunger and everyday objects take on anthropomorphic qualities. Simultaneous.

A Novel

The Hunger Angel

Sieglinde Lug

A collection of stories on life in Romania under Communism, illustrating the violence and the corruption. They are based on the writer's experience in her youth, in a village in the German-speaking part of the country.

Nadirs (Niederungen)

Roman

Atemschaukel

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.

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

Keske Bugün Kendimle Karsilasmasaydim

Michael Hulse

In an intense novel set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy--is summoned for interrogation by members of the regime. 12,500 first printing.

The Appointment

ليتني لم أقابل نفسي اليوم

Michael Hofmann

In Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign, several young people leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or resist and die.

The German inhabitants of a dying village in Romania under Ceausescu's dictatorship, desperately try to get passports so that they can emigrate

The Passport

The Passport (Masks)

romance

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Andningsgunga

Tek bacaklı yolcu

Redan då var räven jägare

Rumänien 1945: Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist zu Ende. Die deutsche Bevölkerung lebt in Angst. "Es war 3 Uhr in der Nacht zum 15. Januar 1945, als die Patrouille mich holte. Die Kälte zog an, es waren -15o C." So beginnt ein junger Mann den Bericht über seine Deportation in ein Lager nach Russland. Anhand seines Lebens erzählt Herta Müller von dem Schicksal der deutschen Bevölkerung in Siebenbürgen. In Gesprächen mit dem Lyriker Oskar Pastior und anderen Überlebenden hat sie den Stoff gesammelt, den sie nun zu einem großen neuen Roman geformt hat. Ihr gelingt es, die Verfolgung Rumäniendeutscher unter Stalin in einer zutiefst individuellen Geschichte sichtbar zu machen.

Herta Müller

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