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The Hunger Angel
Atemschaukel
Herta Müller · 56 when first published
Novel · 299 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:Romania at the end of the war. On the night of 15 January 1945, a young man from the German minority is deported to a Russian labour camp. A sentence his grandmother called after him, that she knows he will come back, keeps him alive.