Herta Müller - Böcker

"När ni skriver, glöm inte datum, och lägg alltid med ett hårstrå i brevet, sade Edgar. Om det inte finns något, vet man att brevet har öppnats." Den lilla gruppen vänner måste hela tiden akta sig för Securitatemännen i Ceausescus Rumäni...

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Jag satte mig vid bordet och väntade på att det skulle bli midnatt. Och det blev midnatt men patrullen var försenad. Tre timmar måste jag vänta. Det var knappt att jag stod ut. Så var de där. Min mor höll fram rocken med sammetslinningen till mig,...

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Oavsett om det handlar om barnhemsbarn på 1960-talet eller en amerikansk bondhustru på 1930-talet, en hemvändande japansk man eller en medborgare i en av kalla krigets kommunistdiktaturer, så finns det en historia att berätta. I den här asken saml...

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Jag satte mig vid bordet och väntade på att det skulle bli midnatt. Och det blev midnatt men patrullen var försenad. Tre timmar måste jag vänta. Det var knappt att jag stod ut. Så var de där. Min mor höll fram rocken med sammetslinningen till mig,...

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I tretton essäer skriver Herta Müller om livet i Rumänien efter Ceausescu och efter diktaturens fall, liksom om sin exiltillvaro i ett återförenat Tyskland där högerextremismen på nytt växer sig stark. Hon skildrar särskilt det förtryck som kommer...

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Redan då var räven jägare utspelar sig i Rumänien vid tiden för Ceausescus fall. Adina, en ung lärarinna och dissident, märker en dag att någon har genomsökt hennes lägenhet. När hon upptäcker att den som spionerar är mannen hennes bästa väninna C...

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Äntligen nyutgåva på svenska. Med efterord av Herta Müller En av de klaraste blickarna på hur Förintelsen har påverkat de som överlevde. Ruth Klüger föddes 1931 in i en la karfamilj i Wien. Som elvaåring deporterades hon med sin mor till Theresien...

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From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.

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Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, "Nadirs" is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a child's often nightm...

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Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Mllers childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a childs often nightmarish impressio...

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A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "e;landscape of the dispossessed"e; with "e;the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose"e; (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an icy morn...

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An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianismRomania-the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel i...

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To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize-winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. Father's on the...

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A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning...

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From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life"e;I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp."e; Thus begins one day in the l...

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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 mot...

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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, s...

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'I know you'll return.' These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck to Russia one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in...

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'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes i...

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'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes i...

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'I know you'll return.' These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck to Russia one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in...

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Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may ...

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Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the grou...

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Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the grou...

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Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may ...

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Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustr...

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Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustr...

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Ein literarisches und ein optisches Vergnügen, Gedicht und Collage zugleich: Aus Zeitungsausschnitten und Bildern setzt Herta Müller ihre Texte zusammen, so dass jedes einzelne Gedicht zu einer ebenso verspielten wie künstlerisch konsequenten Coll...

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Lola kam aus dem Süden Rumäniens, wollte dem Elend mit Hilfe eines erfolgreichen Mannes entfliehen und hing eines Tages am Strick. Die Freunde glauben nicht an einen Selbstmord, versuchen die Wahrheit herauszufinden und zerbrechen daran....

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