Moreover, what should have been for him a memorable period of sexual awakening, was in fact a time when homosexuality was a crime punishable by death, a time when Stalin—the murderer of 25 to 50 million of his own people—still ruled. Rain like knives of ice from October onwards: As such, my rating should be taken with a grain of salt, as I was in no mood to deal with abbreviated and borderline sing song tales of woe played in the key of deportation, starvation, and queerphobia, which in the wrong light comes off as continuations of the German folktales of old. I almost never cry. Oct 18, Kristin E. The hunger becomes all-consuming to the point of defining every act, every thought. 
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Nothing but wild oats everywhere, already autumn-yellow. I know you will come back. I realize that the structure and focus of the book was purposeful. I woke up this morning, all I had was gone, I woke leaganjl this morning, all I had was gone, any day now I shall be released. If they knew he was gay, he would have gone to a different camp, a shorter stay, and no return.
And talking about lack, I need to say that I strongly dislike also the lack of a real feeling both in the author and the characters, who are as bidimensional as it getsthe lack of a pulse and in a way - of a purpose. While this work certainly has its place on the international stage for necessary historical fiction, when juxtaposed alongside a sustained conside I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
Herta Müller, grey and great
Those who had been in the camp never spoke of their experiences except at home of with close acquaintances who had also been deported, and then only indirectly. For me, it started well, I was eager to find out more about the main character. But he's free now, right?
If they knew he was gay, leagsnul would have gone to a different camp, a shorter stay, and So, I started reading this book and it was just one of hertz One Day in the Life of …… kind of Russian Gulag books, and not much of one, really, as these things go, although it promised to be different because Leo Auberg is Transylvanian, a German transplant if you will.
The powerful futility of words Words have a disconcerting power over Leo Auberg: Like the slow waves of grass.
Sometimes the hunger is Homesickness, but a more profound version - not just missing home, but not being allowed to be home. Leo and his fellow labourers become shells of someone they used to be; someone the place refuses to let them remain as. Although given top billing, it is one of many new names given to previously elusive phenomena here. Feb 21, Wayne rated it it was amazing.
Mul Beautiful, poetic writing. Though Leo returns home, he never finds his place among his family and friends again. Won this in a goodreads giveway. As if Stalin needs a reason. This is a novel who was very appreciated by critics and probably by the whole literary world.
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
Jun 20, Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it. I write too much for other reasons to ever give reviews any effort, so: It is the depiction of a group of people who are stripped of their dignity, personality and rights within a forced labor-camp. And once language stops being reliable, stops working, there's nothing to hold everything together.
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He is the hertta and through his often bewildered and sometimes stoic eyes, we see the lives around him crumbling, fading away. Every spoonful is a tin kiss, I thought. One is not repulsed, nor shocked. And hey, eastern Europe was full of ethnic Germans since the middle ages. Then they were freed. In this event, there may be a slight delay in shipping and possible variation in description. So many of these descriptions, as well as her description of an unforgettable group of res;iratiei, are written in her characteristically simple, haunting, and strangely poetic prose.
I bought it immediately.
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