Nadirs (European Women Writers) - Hardcover

Muller, Herta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803231970 ISBN 13: 9780803231979

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0803231970
• ISBN 13: 9780803231979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126