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The fox was ever the hunter : a novel / Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm.
Author
Müller, Herta, 1953-
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Uniform title
Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First U.S. edition.
Published/Created
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2016.
©2016
Description
237 pages ; 22 cm
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PT2673.U29234 F8313 2016
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Romania
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History
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1944-1989
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Fiction
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Translator
Boehm, Philip
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Summary note
"An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism. Romania--the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police--the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. In The Fox Was Always a Hunter, Herta Müller once again uses language that displays the "concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose"--As the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize--to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
"Originally published in Germany in 1992 under the title Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger by Rowohlt Werlag".--Title page verso.
Language note
Translated from the German.
ISBN
9780805093025 ((hardback))
0805093028 ((hardback))
LCCN
2015032783
OCLC
921423790
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