Muller Herta - The Passport - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena because they are their parents. The Passport is a beautiful haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch the village miller faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta M ller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region the Banat in the Danube Plain. In sparse lyrical language Herta M ller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people. This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers with a new foreword by Paul Bailey. Also by Herta M ller: Nadirs The Land of Green Plums The Appointment and The Hunger Angel.
Title: The Passport
Author(s): Muller Herta
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781781255278
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 8/9/2016
Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Category: Fiction In Translation