The village on the edge of the world : writing and surviving Ceaușescu's Romania / Herta Müller in conversation with Angelika Klammer ; translated by Kate McNaughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Herta, 1953- author.

Klammer, Angelika, author.

Contributor:

McNaughton, Kate, translator.

Standardized Title:

Mein Vaterland war ein Apfelkern. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Müller, Herta, 1953-.

Müller, Herta.

Müller, Herta, 1953---Interviews.

Ceaușescu, Nicolae.

Romania--History--1944-1989--Biography.

Romania.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Authors, German--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, Romanian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Romanian.

Authors, Romanian--20th century--Interviews.

Women authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, German.

Women authors, German--20th century--Interviews.

Women authors, Romanian--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, Romanian.

Women authors, Romanian--20th century--Interviews.

Romania--History--Soviet occupation, 1944-1958--Biography.

Romania--History--1944-1989--Interviews.

Genre:

interviews.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Other Title:

Writing and surviving Ceaușescu's Romania

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2026.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the German.

Summary:

"From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world,' through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Müller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize laureate reflects on cultural history, memory, and trauma, and on what it was to live and write under Ceaușescu's regime. She revisits the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism. 'The village on the edge of the world' is a book that chronicles the minutiae of life under both fascism and the Soviet Union, while charting the existential questions posed by these regimes of the twentieth century--and how they remain with us in the twenty-first. This is a powerful and evocative reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain"--Inside jacket flap.

Contents:

Owls on the roof

The rhyme knows the score

The clothes of socialism

A man with a bouquet

All full of cold feelings

The regime buries its crimes

Two sighs of relief

The wonders of my Fatherland

My friend Oskar

Drawers and letters.

Notes:

Translation of: Mein Vaterland war ein Apfelkern.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-248).

ISBN:

9798897100828

OCLC:

1523189603