The Hunger Angel

by Herta Müller

Book Overview

A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080509301X
• ISBN13: 9780805093018
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"