A masterful new novel from the Nobel Prize-winner, who depicts the ‘landscape of the dispossessed’ with ‘the concentration of poetry and frankness of prose’ (Nobel Committee)

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman’s discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her…

Widely regarded as Muller’s best novel, The Land of Green Plums is a beautifully written and unflinching portrayal of life under the totalitarian regime of Ceausescu’s Romania.

Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, this title presents a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside.

Compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). Drawing on psychoanlytical, feminist, and performativity theory, this book…

Die im Band untersuchten Autoren bezeugen Auschwitz und den Massenmord an den europaischen Juden (Kertesz, Amery), das Lager zur Deportation von Widerstandskampfern (Semprun), den Gulag (Schalamow), die Erfahrung einer stalinistischen…

Die Interpretation der Musik in Herta Mullers Werk setzt sich auf der Grundlage des Romans Atemschaukel sowie weiterer Texte der Autorin u.a. mit den Liedern, den Strukturen und der musikalischen…