Nadirs
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...
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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 has been one of the most prolific and acclaimed German-language writers of the last decade. Born in 1953 in the Banat, a German-language region of Romania, she emigrated to West Berlin in 1987 and currently resides in Hamburg. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Kleist Prize. In 1998 her novel The Land of Green Plums was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780803282544 (0803282540)
Publish date: September 1st 1999
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Pages no: 126
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
German Literature,
Short Stories,
Nobel Prize,
Romanian Literature,
Romania,
Germany,
Fiction
Nadirs is a series of short stories told from the point of view of a child who grows up in a community in Romania united by its German roots. Anthropologically it's pretty interesting, and yet without or without the identity aspect to me it's a book about the oppression of small-minded dumb country ...
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