The Hunger Angel is a wonderful, passionate, poetic work of literature, written—as one critic put it, in the blood of Herta Müller’s own heart. It’s a fiction that, like a metalworker’s furnace, completely and successfully consumes the facts on which it is based.
Books The Hunger Angel
- Author
- Herta Müller
- Year
- 2009
- Publisher
- Granta/Metropolitan
Neal Ascherson
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It is as if, by the sheer intensity of the lyrical gaze, [Müller] invents a series of objective correlatives whose unstated evocation of emotion is all the more powerful for being presented rather than represented. And so we get an account of a life lived in intense relationship to things, to physical experience and to a world brutally reduced.