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The Passport by Herta Muller
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the... -
The Appointment by Herta Muller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
Nadirs by Herta Muller 9780803282544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.14Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual... -
The Appointment by Herta Muller 9780312655372
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312655372Author Herta MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St... -
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller 9781250032089
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250032089Author Herta M llerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Herta Muller by Brigid Haines 9780199654642
Booksplease Price: £119.95This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Muller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages... -
Herta Muller by Brigid Haines 9780708314845
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Herta Muller is one of the leading figures in the new generation of German writers. This collection of essays is intended as both an introduction for the general reader and a resource for the... -
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller 9781846274770
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works... -
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller 9780312429942
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429942Author Herta MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Herta Muller: Politics and Aesthetics by Bettina Brandt 9780803245105
Booksplease Price: £37.84Two languages-German and Romanian-inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta MUEller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," MUEller depicts the effects of violence,... -
Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays by Herta Muller 9781846274756
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a... -
Father`s on the Phone with the Flies - A Selection by Herta Muller 9781803090450
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.72An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize. To create the poems in this collection, Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search... -
The Appointment Herta Müller 9781803513485
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
European Angst by Herta Müller 9783944195940
Booksplease Price: £20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944195940Author Herta MüllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Frohmann VerlagPublisher... -
The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 9781803513478
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better... -
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller 9781250094612
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250094612Author Herta MüllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German: Herta Muller, Libuse Monikova, Kerstin Hensel by Lyn Marven 9780199277766
Booksplease Price: £79.49This book examines the relationship between representations of the body and narrative strategies in the work of three contemporary women writers from the former Eastern Bloc countries: Herta Muller,... -
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu's Romania Herta Müller 9781783788170
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world', through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Muller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of... -
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu's Romania by Herta Müller 9798897100828
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897100828Author Herta MüllerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus... -
Nobel Lectures In Literature (2006-2010) by Per Wastberg 9789814583121
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.96The great works of world literature contribute to our understanding of history and humanity. The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps among... -
The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Muller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance by Valentina N. Glajar 9781640141537
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37An in-depth investigation of the Romanian secret police's file on Muller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, re-creating a "file story" of her surveillance. "Herta Muller should share... -
Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation Prof Pam Morris 9781350434097
Booksplease Price: £30.54Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class, racial and gender boundaries would suggest it is. From the inhumanity of post-Brexit... -
Freeman's Home: The Best New Writing on Home by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and... -
The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman 9780472132751
Booksplease Price: £67.25The Right to Difference examines novels that depict human rights violations in order to explore causes of intergroup violence within diverse societies, using Germany as a test case. In these texts,... -
Just the Plague by Polly Gannon 9781783788057
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When... -
East and South: Mapping Other Europes by Lucy Gasser
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52What is "Europe" in academic discourse?While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the "West", neither the "West" nor "Europe" are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial... -
The Novel in German since 1990 by Stuart Taberner 9781107449305
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form,... -
December by Alexander Kluge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection... -
Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory by Giacomo Marramao 9781611496192
Booksplease Price: £66.59In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Muller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts,... -
A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes by Cicilie Fagerlid 9783030347956
Booksplease Price: £91.52This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their "minority" background articulate notions of... -
The Novel in German since 1990 by Stuart Taberner
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form,... -
Parch Menna Elfyn 9781780377544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Welsh, ‘parch’ (the ‘ch’ is guttural) simply means respect. But it is also the common word for a chapel minister (a ‘reverend’). Menna Elfyn’s collection explores the many ways in which respect... -
Natalja's Stories by Inger Christensen 9780241790465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From one of Denmark's most revered authors, a startlingly original novel about a migrant's fate, told across several generationsThis is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St... -
Contemporary Women's Writing in German: Changing the Subject by Brigid Haines 9780198159674
Booksplease Price: £64.48Six key texts by contemporary women writers are read afresh by leading critics, using insights from poststructuralist and new materialist feminist theory. Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, and... -
Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema by Michael Schoenhals 9781137330680
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary... -
Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema by Michael Schoenhals 9781349461189
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary... -
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion: Lowlands; The Spectator Sentenced to Death; The Passport; Stories of the Body (Artemisia, Eva, Lina, Teresa); The Man Who Had All His Malice Removed; Sexodrome by Dr Jozefina Komporaly 9781350214293
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £89.48Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion reflects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock thirty years after the collapse of communism. In... -
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Valentina Glajar
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.74During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance... -
Berlin Shuffle by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 9781805680512
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a few marks... -
Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu 9781911284239
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.57Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Drawing on the poet's life as an openly gay...