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- ISBN
- 9780805093025
- Book Title
- Fox Was Ever the Hunter : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia Romania--the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the rest of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police--the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. And once again, Herta Muller uses language that displays the "concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose"--as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize--to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.
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9780805093025
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Book Title
Fox Was Ever the Hunter : a Novel
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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8.5 in
Item Height
0.9 in
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5.8 in
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12 Oz
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Reviews
"A haunting portrayal of the secret lives of people and things during the last breaths of an obliterating regime . . . deftly rendered by Müller''s longtime translator Philip Boehm. . . . Müller inches closer to narrowing the gap between people and things, between life and language. For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry." -- The Washington Post " The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a collage of images, stories and fragments of forbidden songs. . . . When the collage is completed, the reader understands that each and every one of Müller''s stories, every flight of luscious language and every brutal fact, has been necessary in depicting a society torn to pieces." -- The New York Times "Remarkable . . . The Fox is one of Müller''s early works . . . newly released in English and given a lucid translation by Philip Boehm . . . it draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history''s most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying." -- NPR "Reads like poetry . . . The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a short book, but the way Müller narrates gives it a luminescence, like wet stone seen at night. . . . Of the writers to survive life under the Communist bloc, Müller has written most poignantly about the way surveillance and state control at once necessitated and warped the fabric of love. . . . From the moment she left, Müller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page nearly a quarter century later. In this vividly poetic novel, she reminds us what life without that freedom looked, felt, and tasted like." -- Boston Globe "A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller''s prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting." -- The Atlantic "Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller." -- Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) "This newly translated 1992 novel set during the twilight of Romania''s Ceau'escu regime makes vivid the persecution Müller and others suffered. . . . She uses the distinctive language honoured by the Nobel Committee for its ''concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'' to give a powerful sense of the toxic atmosphere of a totalitarian regime." -- BBC Culture (UK) "Atmospheric, lyrical . . . An essential work of post-Iron Curtain literature and a harrowing portrait of life under suspicion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Offers a bleak and poetic portrait of Romanian village life in the final days of the Ceau'escu regime, where deprivation is ubiquitous, cruelty is standard, and spying is a survival skill . . . Thickly lyrical and sometimes downright hallucinatory . . . few descriptions of life under totalitarian rule are as beautifully evocative." -- Booklist (starred) "Extraordinary . . . Müller lays bare the totalitarian attack on the individual and the everyday horror of life under a repressive regime. There is a cinematic intensity to the narrative. . . . Short, clipped sentences accumulate, overlapping and building into a noisy, symphonic whole. . . . Philip Boehm''s excellent translation resist[s] any temptation to rationalize, to smooth over the strangeness. . . . Müller herself does not dictate to us and often lets the truth emerge from what remains unsaid. The result is a profoundly unsettling novel, which renders palpable the cruelty of life under the regime, as well as the brittle exhilarations of its overthrow.'' -- Times Literary Supplement (UK), Praise for The Hunger Angel : "Written in terse, hypnotic prose... exquisite."- New Yorker "A wonderful, passionate, poetic work of literature."- Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books "Stark and piercing . . . Convincingly re-creates a surreal time and an absurd place."- The Boston Globe "A work of rare force, a feat of sustained and overpowering poetry... Muller has the ability to distil concrete objects into language of the greatest intensity and to sear these objects on to the reader's mind."- Times Literary Supplement "This is not just a good novel, it is a great one... A masterpiece."- Financial Times, "A haunting portrayal of the secret lives of people and things during the last breaths of an obliterating regime . . . deftly rendered by Müller''s longtime translator Philip Boehm. . . . Müller inches closer to narrowing the gap between people and things, between life and language. For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry." -- The Washington Post " The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a collage of images, stories and fragments of forbidden songs. . . . When the collage is completed, the reader understands that each and every one of Müller''s stories, every flight of luscious language and every brutal fact, has been necessary in depicting a society torn to pieces." -- The New York Times "Remarkable . . . The Fox is one of Müller''s early works . . . newly released in English and given a lucid translation by Philip Boehm . . . it draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history''s most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying." -- NPR "Reads like poetry . . . The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a short book, but the way Müller narrates gives it a luminescence, like wet stone seen at night. . . . Of the writers to survive life under the Communist bloc, Müller has written most poignantly about the way surveillance and state control at once necessitated and warped the fabric of love. . . . From the moment she left, Müller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page nearly a quarter century later. In this vividly poetic novel, she reminds us what life without that freedom looked, felt, and tasted like." -- Boston Globe "A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller''s prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting." -- The Atlantic "Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller." -- Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) "This newly translated 1992 novel set during the twilight of Romania''s Ceau?escu regime makes vivid the persecution Müller and others suffered. . . . She uses the distinctive language honoured by the Nobel Committee for its ''concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'' to give a powerful sense of the toxic atmosphere of a totalitarian regime." -- BBC Culture (UK) "Atmospheric, lyrical . . . An essential work of post-Iron Curtain literature and a harrowing portrait of life under suspicion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Offers a bleak and poetic portrait of Romanian village life in the final days of the Ceau?escu regime, where deprivation is ubiquitous, cruelty is standard, and spying is a survival skill . . . Thickly lyrical and sometimes downright hallucinatory . . . few descriptions of life under totalitarian rule are as beautifully evocative." -- Booklist (starred) "Extraordinary . . . Müller lays bare the totalitarian attack on the individual and the everyday horror of life under a repressive regime. There is a cinematic intensity to the narrative. . . . Short, clipped sentences accumulate, overlapping and building into a noisy, symphonic whole. . . . Philip Boehm''s excellent translation resist[s] any temptation to rationalize, to smooth over the strangeness. . . . Müller herself does not dictate to us and often lets the truth emerge from what remains unsaid. The result is a profoundly unsettling novel, which renders palpable the cruelty of life under the regime, as well as the brittle exhilarations of its overthrow.'' -- Times Literary Supplement (UK), "A haunting portrayal of the secret lives of people and things during the last breaths of an obliterating regime . . . deftly rendered by Mller''s longtime translator Philip Boehm. . . . Mller inches closer to narrowing the gap between people and things, between life and language. For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry." -- The Washington Post " The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a collage of images, stories and fragments of forbidden songs. . . . When the collage is completed, the reader understands that each and every one of Mller''s stories, every flight of luscious language and every brutal fact, has been necessary in depicting a society torn to pieces." -- The New York Times "Remarkable . . . The Fox is one of Mller''s early works . . . newly released in English and given a lucid translation by Philip Boehm . . . it draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history''s most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying." -- NPR "Reads like poetry . . . The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a short book, but the way Mller narrates gives it a luminescence, like wet stone seen at night. . . . Of the writers to survive life under the Communist bloc, Mller has written most poignantly about the way surveillance and state control at once necessitated and warped the fabric of love. . . . From the moment she left, Mller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page nearly a quarter century later. In this vividly poetic novel, she reminds us what life without that freedom looked, felt, and tasted like." -- Boston Globe "A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Mller''s prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting." -- The Atlantic "Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Mller." -- Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) "This newly translated 1992 novel set during the twilight of Romania''s Ceau'escu regime makes vivid the persecution Mller and others suffered. . . . She uses the distinctive language honoured by the Nobel Committee for its ''concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'' to give a powerful sense of the toxic atmosphere of a totalitarian regime." -- BBC Culture (UK) "Atmospheric, lyrical . . . An essential work of post-Iron Curtain literature and a harrowing portrait of life under suspicion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Offers a bleak and poetic portrait of Romanian village life in the final days of the Ceau'escu regime, where deprivation is ubiquitous, cruelty is standard, and spying is a survival skill . . . Thickly lyrical and sometimes downright hallucinatory . . . few descriptions of life under totalitarian rule are as beautifully evocative." -- Booklist (starred) "Extraordinary . . . Mller lays bare the totalitarian attack on the individual and the everyday horror of life under a repressive regime. There is a cinematic intensity to the narrative. . . . Short, clipped sentences accumulate, overlapping and building into a noisy, symphonic whole. . . . Philip Boehm''s excellent translation resist[s] any temptation to rationalize, to smooth over the strangeness. . . . Mller herself does not dictate to us and often lets the truth emerge from what remains unsaid. The result is a profoundly unsettling novel, which renders palpable the cruelty of life under the regime, as well as the brittle exhilarations of its overthrow.'' -- Times Literary Supplement (UK), "A haunting portrayal of the secret lives of people and things during the last breaths of an obliterating regime . . . deftly rendered by Müller's longtime translator Philip Boehm. . . . Müller inches closer to narrowing the gap between people and things, between life and language. For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry." -- The Washington Post " The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a collage of images, stories and fragments of forbidden songs. . . . When the collage is completed, the reader understands that each and every one of Müller's stories, every flight of luscious language and every brutal fact, has been necessary in depicting a society torn to pieces." -- The New York Times "Remarkable . . . The Fox is one of Müller's early works . . . newly released in English and given a lucid translation by Philip Boehm . . . it draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history's most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying." -- NPR "Reads like poetry . . . The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a short book, but the way Müller narrates gives it a luminescence, like wet stone seen at night. . . . Of the writers to survive life under the Communist bloc, Müller has written most poignantly about the way surveillance and state control at once necessitated and warped the fabric of love. . . . From the moment she left, Müller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page nearly a quarter century later. In this vividly poetic novel, she reminds us what life without that freedom looked, felt, and tasted like." -- Boston Globe "A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller's prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting." -- The Atlantic "Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller." -- Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) "This newly translated 1992 novel set during the twilight of Romania's Ceau'escu regime makes vivid the persecution Müller and others suffered. . . . She uses the distinctive language honoured by the Nobel Committee for its 'concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose' to give a powerful sense of the toxic atmosphere of a totalitarian regime." -- BBC Culture (UK) "Atmospheric, lyrical . . . An essential work of post-Iron Curtain literature and a harrowing portrait of life under suspicion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Offers a bleak and poetic portrait of Romanian village life in the final days of the Ceau'escu regime, where deprivation is ubiquitous, cruelty is standard, and spying is a survival skill . . . Thickly lyrical and sometimes downright hallucinatory . . . few descriptions of life under totalitarian rule are as beautifully evocative." -- Booklist (starred), Praise for Herta Müller's The Fox Was Ever the Hunter "A haunting portrayal of the secret lives of people and things during the last breaths of an obliterating regime . . . deftly rendered by Müller's longtime translator Philip Boehm. . . . Müller inches closer to narrowing the gap between people and things, between life and language. For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry." -- The Washington Post " The Fox Was Ever the Hunter is a collage of images, stories and fragments of forbidden songs. . . . When the collage is completed, the reader understands that each and every one of Müller's stories, every flight of luscious language and every brutal fact, has been necessary in depicting a society torn to pieces." -- The New York Times "Remarkable . . . The Fox is one of Müller's early works . . . newly released in English and given a lucid translation by Philip Boehm . . . it draws on what she suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history's most notorious dictatorships. But she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor that make this much more than a roman à clef. . . . Here, dreams become extensions of life, or life itself is a dream; they are cut, at any rate, from one and the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying." --NPR "A dark collage, which glints with fear--and with beauty . . . Müller's prose--as poetic as it is blunt--works like a prism, shattering and illuminating a world that is always watching, waiting." -- The Atlantic "Perhaps no author has captured the surreal textures of Iron Curtain paranoia quite like Herta Müller." --Vogue.com (Best Books of the Month) "This newly translated 1992 novel set during the twilight of Romania's Ceau'escu regime makes vivid the persecution Müller and others suffered. . . . She uses the distinctive language honoured by the Nobel Committee for its 'concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose' to give a powerful sense of the toxic atmosphere of a totalitarian regime." --BBC Culture "Atmospheric, lyrical . . . An essential work of post-Iron Curtain literature and a harrowing portrait of life under suspicion." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Offers a bleak and poetic portrait of Romanian village life in the final days of the Ceau'escu regime, where deprivation is ubiquitous, cruelty is standard, and spying is a survival skill . . . Thickly lyrical and sometimes downright hallucinatory . . . few descriptions of life under totalitarian rule are as beautifully evocative." -- Booklist (starred)
Table of Content
CONTENTS 1. The way of the apple worm 1 2. The man inside his own hand 14 3. The forelock 18 4. As good as a piece of bread 38 6. A necktie 53 7. Summer entrails 57 8. Days of melons, days of pumpkins 61 9. The cat and the dwarf 68 10. Nuts 84 11. A different silence 94 12. Eardrum infection 103 13. The smallest man carries the biggest cane 111 14. The grass straw in the mouth 115 15. Face without face 118 16. The razor blade 129 17. A fox will step into a trap 132 18. You're not saying anything 139 19. My head is dark 148 20. The fox on the table 158 21. The hand kiss 163 22. The lost shovel 168 23. I can't stand looking at the water when it's so cold out 172 24. There was a time and is no more 175 25. The birthmark 182 26. The wasp game 188 27. The spreading city 196 28. The chamber pot 205 29. The fingernails grow 211 30. Transparent sleep 217 31. A black and white sky 220 32. Frozen raspberries 226 33. I don't know you 232 34. That doesn't matter, doesn't matter at all 236
Copyright Date
2016
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2015-032783
Dewey Decimal
833.91
Dewey Edition
23
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