Nadirs

Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, 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.  Sieglinde Lug is a professor emerita of German and comparative literature at the University of Denver.

"The world of the village, as Muller celebrates it, rustles on these pages. Each line, each paragraph, such a wedding of insight and the fantastic that I could scarcely hold the book without trembling."-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered -- All Things Considered Alan Cheuse