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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature \u003c/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2009\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.'\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Passport\u003c/i\u003e is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerta Müller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, lyrical language, Herta Müller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso by Herta Müller: \u003ci\u003eNadirs\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Green Plums\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Appointment\u003c/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Angel\u003c/i\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e |
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