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Praise for Herta Müller: ""With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed.""--Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature ""A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller's prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting.""--The Atlantic ""Especially now, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's a beautiful signal that such high quality literature and this life experience are being honoured.""--Angela Merkel ""Herta Müller is a passionate artist of protest.""--Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ""Herta Müller is a writer who releases great emotional power through a highly sophisticated, image studded, and often expressionistic prose.""--Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books ""Müller scatters narrative bombshells across a field of dreams.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Nobody since Arthur Koestler in the 1940s has written more intelligently or with such subtle precision about life under totalitarianism... Müller has an exceptionally rare talent--to turn the terrifying, the distorted and the hideously ugly into something uplifting and beautiful.""--Prospect Magazine ""Of the writers to survive life under the Communist bloc, Müller has written most poignantly about the way surveillance and state control at once necessitated and warped the fabric of love. . . . From the moment she left, Müller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page nearly a quarter century later.""--The Boston Globe ""Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller.""--Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) ""Remarkable . . . The Fox draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history's most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying.""--NPR

Praise for The Village on the Edge of the World: ""The reader is left with a solemn wonder at the singularly meticulous power of Müller's imagination and her inimitable, granular reverence for language. A riveting account, with bittersweet, lyrical, and hard-won wisdom packed onto every page.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Praise for Herta Müller: ""With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed.""--Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature ""A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller's prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting.""--The Atlantic ""Especially now, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's a beautiful signal that such high quality literature and this life experience are being honoured.""--Angela Merkel ""Herta Müller is a passionate artist of protest.""--Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ""Herta Müller is a writer who releases great emotional power through a highly sophisticated, image studded, and often expressionistic prose.""--Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books ""Müller scatters narrative bombshells across a field of dreams.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Nobody since Arthur Koestler in the 1940s has written more intelligently or with such subtle precision about life under totalitarianism... Müller has an exceptionally rare talent--to turn the terrifying, the distorted and the hideously ugly into something uplifting and beautiful.""--Prospect Magazine ""Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller.""--Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) ""Remarkable . . . The Fox draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history's most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying.""--NPR

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Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in Banat, Romania. In 1987, she emigrated to Germany and has lived in Berlin ever since. She is the author of The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, The Hunger Angel, and The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, among other works. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Kate McNaughton is a documentary filmmaker, author, and translator, working from the French, German, and Italian. Her debut novel, How I Lose You, was published in 2018.

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