This series of vignettes and short stories packs quite a punch. Revolving around Müller's own childhood in rural Romania the razor sharp simplicity of her prose as she describes everyday life is undercut by dark currents of privation and violence. Her impressions are child-like without being childish and it's a hard world that she recreates where the spectres of war and the State loom large, one which sometimes slips over into nightmare #24in48