Nadirs

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Nadirs

Herta Müller
Translated and with an afterword by Sieglinde Lug

European Women Writers Series

126 pages

Paperback

September 1999

978-0-8032-8254-4

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About the Book

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.

Author Bio

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.

Awards

Herta Müller is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.