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The Passport

By Herta Muller

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The Passport

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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, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.'The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta M¿ller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, lyrical language, Herta M¿ller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.Also by Herta M¿ller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2016-08-09
Publication Date:
2015-12-03
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
178125527X
ISBN13:
9781781255278
Weight:
130 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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