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Cristina and Her Double Selected Essays by Herta Muller
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not have occurred to the writer when he began.' That powe ...Show more
Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays by Herta Muller
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Simon Schama in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not have occurred to the writer when he began.' And that po ...Show more
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fu ...Show more
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
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Category: Fiction
'I know you'll return.' These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in the bruta ...Show more
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I know you'll return'. These are his grandmother's last words to him. He has them in his head as he boards the truck at 3am on a freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in th ...Show more
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, "The Land of Green Plums" tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustration of a totalitarian state which comes to inhabit ev ...Show more
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