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The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
Herta Muller
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
Herta Muller
"VIVIDLY POETIC . . . MÃœLLER HAS EXERCISED HER VOICE WITH A FURY THAT VIBRATES OFF THE PAGE."--THE BOSTON GLOBE
Romania--the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the others. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox-fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion, it's the hind leg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a taunting sign that she is being watched by the secret police--the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated by fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. Once again, Herta Müller uses language that displays "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose"--as the Swedish academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize--to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 2 mei 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781250094612 |
Uitgevers | Picador USA |
Pagina's | 256 |
Afmetingen | 137 × 208 × 20 mm · 240 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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