Atemschaukel: Roman | 
pickMüller tells a tale of the marginalized and dispossessed in this novel of the WWII era. Drawing from the experiences of her ethnic German family and friends who were a minority living in Romania, she highlights the experiences of those who were sent to the forced labor camps by Stalin to rebuild the USSR. Her novel clearly shows how hunger and harsh imprisonment never really leaves the psyche of those fortunate enough to be released. #ReadWomen
#photoadaynov16 Here are two #setineasterneurope at opposite ends of World War II that both blew me away. @RealLifeReading
pickThis book is not a gruesome recounting of events in the work camps. It's more subtle than that. The episodes of five years of "living" in a camp after WWII with a lot of strenuous physical work and very little to eat to sustain it. Also, not knowing when and if you'll ever get to go home. The writing is beautiful and feels dream like, but at the same time she is able to convey the desperation, the oppression and this never ending hunger.
Day 3 of staycation! Today I am finally cracking open this gem by Nobel Price winning author Herta Müller. I received the book as a gift many many years ago from my aunt and uncle. It's still shrink wrapped...
My #WWW is Herta Müller, & it also happens to be her birthday! Müller is a German-Romanian author, poet, & essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her writing is profound & affecting, focusing on the effects of terror & violence under the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in Communist Romania, which she lived through herself. Her stories often depict living as an oppressed German minority in Romania. ?????? #BookishBirthdays
