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The Hunger Angel
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Herta Müller (born 1953)
Translated by Philip Boehm
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The Hunger Angel
Portobello Books · United Kingdom · 2013 · 304 pages
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The Hunger Angel
Metropolitan Books · United States · 24 April 2012
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Romania at the end of the war. On the night of 15 January 1945, a young man from the German minority in Transylvania is deported to a Soviet labour camp. 'I KNOW YOU'LL COME BACK,' his grandmother calls after him, and the sentence keeps him alive. In the camp he lives through hunger, hardship and death in unimaginably extreme conditions, told in a language that itself walks along a border. A forgotten chapter of European history comes to light: that of the Romanian Germans in the Soviet camps.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 299 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 1945–1950
- First published
- 2009 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783446233911 (original)
9780805093018 (Metropolitan Books, United States)
9781846272783 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)
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