β Bedford-Jones, H.
π Fiction
π
2014
π Altus Press
π English
β 100 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Passport
β Scribed by Herta Muller
- Publisher
- Profile Books;Serpent's Tail
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Edition
- [New edition] /
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 184765505X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 MΓΌller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat,...
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