The Passport (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781781255278)

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009

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 M?ler 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 M?ler captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.

This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.

Author: Herta M?ler
ISBN-10: 178125527X
ISBN-13: 9781781255278
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d