The hunger angel a novel

January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years howev...

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Main Author: Müller, Herta
Other Authors: Boehm, Philip
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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Summary:January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
Item Description:"Metropolitan Books."
"Originally published in Germany in 2009 under the title by Atemschaukel by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich."
Physical Description:ix, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780805093018
080509301X
Author Notes:Born in Romania in 1953, Herta Müller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the European Literature Prize, she has also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her previous novel, The Land of Green Plums.

Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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