Product Description: &ldquo,Para quien nunca ha vivido la experiencia de una dictadura muchas cosas suenan casi increíbles. Pero ¿a quién creer, si no es a una escritora de la talla de Herta Mü,ller? Habla de experiencias vividas en carne propia...read more

Product Description: Madrid. 22 cm. 190 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'El ojo del tiempo', numero coleccion(55). Müller, Herta 1953-. Traducción del alemán de Isabel García Adánez. Título original: Der König verneigt sich und tötet...read more

Product Description: Muller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.

Product Description: Spanish Description: Valiendose de las conversaciones y de las detalladas notas de la vida en el campo de concentracion tomadas por su amigo, el poeta Oskar Pastior, la premio Nobel rumana Herta Muller indaga en la historia de represion y persecucion sufrida por los alemanes rumanos en tiempos de Stalin...read more

Product Description: The Passport is the disturbing portrait of the disintegration of a Germanic community in rural Rumania, a town trapped by oppression and inconceivable harshness. In a tale that becomes a poem thanks to the clarity of its images and the rhythm and cadence of its prose, Muller s forceful and unvarnished hand sketches the history of a town and its inhabitants, replicating their air of despair, their conflicts, superstitions and dreams...read more

Product Description: Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of fifteen largely autobiographical stories based on Muller s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a child s often nightmarish impressions of life in her village...read more

Product Description: El hombre es un gran faisan en el mundo es el perturbador retrato de la desintegracion de una comunidad germanica asentada en una Rumania rural, atrapada en una atmosfera opresiva de insolita dureza. Sus paginas vuelven a plasmar la intensa calidad literaria de Herta Muller, ya revelada en su libro de relatos En tierras bajas (Siruela, 1990 y 2007), que desperto un gran interes en la critica dentro y fuera de Alemania...read more

Product Description: Winner, 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature  Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the orbit of three troubled men, while simultaneously embarking on an inner exploration of exile, homeland, and identity...read more

Product Description: El presente volumen reune quince relatos localizados en su mayoria en un mundo rural inclemente, cerrado y opresivo que nos hacen recorrer, tras la mirada viviseccionadora de una nina, escenas cotidianas en la vida de una pequena comunidad de ascendencia suaba...read more

Product Description: Quien es capaz de escribir como lo hace Herta Mullerno solo sabe de literatura, sino que es lo que antano sedenominaba un poeta.Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungLa piel del zorro nos ofrece un desgarrador fresco deuna ciudad rumana durante las postrimerias de la erade Ceausescu...read more

Product Description: Book by Muller, Herta

Product Description: Decades after the fall of the iron curtain and the overthrow and execution of brutal Romanian dictator Nicholas Ceausescu, the worst AIDS epidemic among children in the world bears out its infamous legacy in Romania, still one of the poorest and most fractured societies in Eastern Europe...read more

In an intense novel set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy--is summoned for interrogation by members of the regime. Reprint.

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Set in Romania at the pinnacle of Ceausescu's reign, the tale of a group of young people who leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects describes how they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or resist and die.

The German inhabitants of a dying village in Romania under Ceausescu's dictatorship, desperately try to get passports so that they can emigrate