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Dear
German-Studies Subscribers,
We
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Müller Network
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Nadirs
2009 Nobel
Prize in Literature winner, Herta Müller, translated and with afterword by Sieglinde Lug, University of Denver
"A work of striking originality
and power."— Kirkus Reviews
"The 15 stories are melodious but
sober in tone, echoing an overwhelmingly oppressive social atmosphere. It's bluntly
stated that boys are injured in local factories and mothers' lives are
unrelentingly harsh; meanwhile, Müller imbues a trip to the barber or a ride on
the intervillage bus with colorful, surreal twists. . . . Most of these
impressionistic pieces are bursting with breathtaking, earthy
details."— Publishers Weekly
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 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.
She has received numerous literary awards, including the 2009 Nobel Prize in
Literature. Sieglinde Lug is a professor emerita of German and comparative
literature at the University of Denver
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