This is a more recent novel by Herta Mueller who won the Nobel Prize in 2009, soon after this novel came out. The epilogue and author’s note mentions that this began as a work in collaboration between Mueller and a poet whose experience overlap the subject of the poet’s experiences in a Soviet camp after the fall of Romanian in 1945. The novel circulates around the experiences of a young man from Romania who is captured and imprisoned by the new Soviet leadership when the […]
The Hunger Angel
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller