Fortunately, the Nobel Prize committee for literature has gotten it right when it’s recognized the courageous, sensual complexities of certain writers: William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon and in 2009 Herta Müller, a Romanian of German origin whose novels about the experience of growing up in communist Romania are a meticulous portrait of the devastating individual physical and mental deformation produced by that system. (via Herta Müller’s vivid ‘The Hunger Angel’: Book review - latimes.com)
The Hunger Angel: A Novel (Amazon.com)
Posted June 16, 2012 at 11:11am in Herta Müller the hunger angel book novel review romania germany soviet gulag
