| International Standard Book Number |
9798897100828
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| Personal Name |
Müller, Herta, 1953- author.
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| Title Statement |
The village on the edge of the world : writing and surviving Ceau?escu's Romania / Herta Müller in conversation with Angelika Klammer ; translated by Kate McNaughton.
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| Edition Statement |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2026.
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| Physical Description |
248 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Originally published in 2014 by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Owls on the roof -- The rhyme knows the score -- The clothes of socialism -- A man with a bouquet -- All full of cold feeling -- The regime buries its crimes -- Two sighs of belief -- The wonders of my fatherland -- My friend Oskar -- Drawers and letters.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A Nobel Laureate presents a brilliant reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceau?escu's Romania. From 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 Müller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize Laureate reflects on cultural history, memory, and trauma, and on what it was to live and write under Ceau?escu's regime. She revisits the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism. The Village on the Edge of the World is a book that chronicles the minutiae of life under both fascism and the Soviet Union, while charting the existential questions posed by these regimes of the twentieth century--and how they remain with us in the twenty-first. This is a powerful and evocative reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain." -- Publisher's description.
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| Language note |
In English, translated from the German.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Müller, Herta, 1953-
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Müller, Herta, 1953- Interviews.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Ceau?escu, Nicolae.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, German 20th century Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, German 20th century Interviews.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, Romanian 20th century Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, Romanian 20th century Interviews.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors, German 20th century Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors, German 20th century Interviews.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors, Romanian 20th century Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors, Romanian 20th century Interviews.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Écrivains allemands (CaQQLa)201-0178445 20e siècle (CaQQLa)201-0373677 Biographies. (CaQQLa)201-0378258.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Écrivains allemands (CaQQLa)201-0178445 20e siècle (CaQQLa)201-0373677 Entretiens. (CaQQLa)201-0378030.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Écrivains roumains (CaQQLa)000275797 20e siècle (CaQQLa)201-0373677 Biographies. (CaQQLa)201-0378258.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Écrivains roumains (CaQQLa)000275797 20e siècle (CaQQLa)201-0373677 Entretiens. (CaQQLa)201-0378030.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Romania History 1944-1989 Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Romania History Soviet occupation, 1944-1958 Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Roumanie (CaQQLa)201-0048601 Histoire (CaQQLa)201-0048601 1944-1989 (CaQQLa)201-0048601 Biographies. (CaQQLa)201-0378258.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Roumanie (CaQQLa)201-0048601 Histoire (CaQQLa)201-0048601 1944-1989 (CaQQLa)201-0048601 Entretiens. (CaQQLa)201-0378030.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Klammer, Angelika, author.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
McNaughton, Kate, translator.
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