The Hunger Angel
by Herta Muller
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82%
Critic Reviews: 14
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Reader Ratings: 42
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Synopsis
A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and... more
About Herta Muller
- All Critics: 14
- Positive: 13
- Negative: 1
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The New York Times | 8 Jun 2012
The talent and discipline that enabled Müller to do this for her character are what make this book one of the few contributions to the imaginative literature of the concentration camp.
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Los Angeles Times | 3 Jun 2012
"The Hunger Angel" presents a powerful experience, and knowing the subsequent history provides a direct visceral understanding of just how insidious and psychologically devastating was the experience of living in such a camp.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Apr 2012
Leo’s sexual orientation is not well integrated into the narrative; his post-camp experiences are too compressed.
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The Globe and Mail | 2 Jun 2012
This extraordinary book lays his unquiet soul to rest.
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Boston.com | 3 May 2012
“The Hunger Angel” illumines a terrifying and inhuman phenomenon that for decades was sanitized by its orchestrators...
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BookSexy | 14 Jun 2012
I was emotionally engaged despite the restrained tone in which the stories are told… often becoming outraged, upset and heartbroken by what I was hearing/reading.
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Axe for the Frozen Sea | 23 Jun 2012
Read The Hunger Angel to experience the most incredible writing, to witness the work of a literary genius.
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Publishers Weekly | 30 Apr 2012
Boehm's translation preserves the integrity of Müller's gorgeous prose, and Leo's despondent reveries are at once tragic and engrossing.
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Of Books and Reading | 14 Jun 2012
Herta Müller writes with urgency that I have not seen in any other writer.
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BC Books | 5 May 2012
Boehm's translation is the language of poetry; it is a style that demands as much time with eyes away from the page thinking, as actually reading the words.
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Book Loons
The Hunger Angel has been translated from German, but the style of writing even in translation comes across as powerful and poetic.
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NPR | 8 May 2012
Leo endures, of course, surviving to tell this dark and urgent story. The method Muller deploys to portray such endurance should last as well. Perhaps, like me, you'll be waiting for each of her new books from now on.
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The Guardian | 21 Nov 2012
This is a remarkable novel, both bleak and chastening.
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The Guardian | 17 Nov 2012
The flagrant monotony and misery of camp life provide a moving account of Leo's experience.
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