ISBN: 0803231970 9780803231979

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 122

Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, <i>Nadirs</i> is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a child's often nightmarish impressions of life in her village. Seamlessly mixing reality with dream-like images, they brilliantly convey the inner, troubled life of a child and at the same time capture the violence and corruption of life under an oppressive state.