The fox was ever the hunter
a novel
First U. S. edition.
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Author
Contributions
- Boehm, Philip, translator - Contributor
Publication
2016 - Metropolitan Books, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,250 words, Guess
Page Count
237 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefoxwaseverhunter0000mull_e4r5
- ISBN-100805093028
- ISBN-139780805093025
- Library of Congress Control Number2015032783
- OCLC Control Number921423790
and 4 more
- Better World BooksO4-CAO-340
- Better World Books9780805093025
- Better World BooksO6-DID-073
- Open LibraryOL27208038M
Classifications
- DDC833/.914
- LCCPT2673.U29234 F8313 2016
- LCCPT2673.U29234F8313
Description
"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"--
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