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32%OFFHerta Muller - Cristina and Her Double - 9781846274756 - V9781846274756
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Cristina and Her Double

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Description for Cristina and Her Double Hardcover. The finest essays of Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller, selected from twenty years of her fearless, intelligent, unsettling truth-telling in a life lived in opposition, courage, secrecy and uncertainty Translator(s): Mulligan, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JPHX; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not have occurred to the writer when he began.' That power, that propulsion, that surprise is evident in every one of this selection of the very finest of the essays produced over the past 20 years by the Romanian-German Nobel Laureate Herta Müller. She interrogates Communist society - especially in its bizarre Romanian Ceausescu variation - and matters ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846274756
SKU
V9781846274756
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About Herta Muller
Born in Romania in 1953, HERTA MÜLLER lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceauçescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the European Literature Prize, she also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her ... Read more

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