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Reviews: ‘Müller has an eye for the surreal detail of a police state and has made it into strong, muscular literature’
The Times
‘Like Kafka writing German in bohemia, she left as a double outsider, a writer evoking alienation in a minority language’
Julian Evans, Guardian
‘Forces the reader to confront the complex tapestry of Eastern European history...she remains interested in the issues of oppression and exile, which makes her a universal writer’
Razia Iqbal, BBC Arts Correspondent
‘[Müller’s] dark, closely observed and sometimes violent work often explores exile and the grim quotidian realities of life under Ceausescu...Her sensibility is often bleak, but the detail in her fiction can whip it alive’
New York Times
Description: ‘with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed’
Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceaucescu’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. In need of a passport, when his attempts to bribe the mayor with sacks of flour fail, he sends his daughter to visit the village officials...
Herta Muller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region. In The Passport’s sparse language, she captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.ISBN - 9781852421397
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Pages : 96
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