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    "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 Mueller
    describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions,
    conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the
    Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Muller captures the
    forlorn plight of a trapped people.

Author Biography:
    Herta Muller is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.
    She was born in Romania in 1953.  After refusing to cooperate with
    Ceausescu's Securitate, she lost her job as a teacher and suffered
    repeated threats before she was able to emigrate in 1987.  She is
    the author of The Passport (1989) and Children of Ceausescu
    (2002) among other publications, and is the winner of Germany's
    most prestigious literary award, The Kleist Prize. Herta Muller now
    lives in Berlin.
Title suggested by book lover Jennifer Li:
    'The Passport' by Herta Muller / Martin Chalmers (Translator)
    Category:                Literature
    Academic Subjects: German contemporary fiction
    ISBN:                       9781852421397
    Publisher:                Serpents Tail
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