The Passport
of Herta MĂŒller, Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Description
From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literatureâ[The Passport] has the same clipped prose cadences as Nadirs, this time applied to evoke the trapped mentality of a man so desperate for freedom that he views everything through a temporal lens, like a prisoner staring at a calendar in his cell.ââWall Street JournalâA swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail.ââThe Philadelphia InquirerThe Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescuâs dictatorship and the glittering temptations of life in 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 MĂŒller (Herta Mueller) describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Muller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 93 pages
- Publisher Serpent's Tail
- Publication Date October 1st 2009
- First Publication 11/06/86
- Language English
- ISBN 9781852421397
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Romania']
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