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 decade. Born in 1953 in
the Banat, a German-language region of Romania, she
emigrated to West Berlin in 1987 and currently resides in
Hamburg. She has received numerous literary awards,
including the Kleist Prize. In 1998 her novel The Land of
Green Plums was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award.
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