The Passport (Paperback, Main - Classic edition)

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 Muller 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 Muller 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 Muller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel.

General

Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Serpent's Tail Classics
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Herta Muller
Translators:	Martin Chalmers
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	113
Edition:	Main - Classic edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-78125-527-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-78125-527-X
Barcode:	9781781255278

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