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Also by Herta Müller:

The Hunger Angel, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Appointment, September 2002
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Nadirs, September 1999
Paperback
The Land of Green Plums, November 1998
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NADIRS
By: Herta Müller

University of Nebraska Press
September 1999
On Sale: September 1, 1999
126 pages
ISBN: 0803282540
EAN: 9780803282544
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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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