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This is the story of a young factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, who gets caught pinning notes into men's suits headed for Italy. The notes all say the same thing: "Marry me" and then her name and address. The factory worker is desperate to get out of Romania. This is a powerful book filled with anxiety, torment and nighmarish images. Reads almost like a memoir, fluidly and beautifully, "I knew that our hungry groaning would be coming along soon, like the trains on the tracks.
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A difficult book, this novel by Nobel Laureate Herta Muller. A fired factory worker travels by streetcar, narrating by turns observations about the idiosyncratic passengers and driver, and telling the story of her life in no discernible order. Muller knows how to construct a life that feels lived: the narrator's marriages, family members, her one friend, her interrogator and her nemesis slip into vision and out of it easily and realistically. She also knows how to construct a city populated by p
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I'm sick and should be in bed. But I wanted to post quickly about this book. This book was small (only 200pp) but dense. I picked it up as I thought I could knock it over quickly in a few days before we went on holidays in Cairns and I could relax on the beach with a big, thick book. Oh how I was wrong.
Instead, it was like walking through treacle. But surprisingly, not in a bad way. Just sticky. Like walking through mangrove mud, which I fell into the other day and then the pressure of pulling m ...more
Instead, it was like walking through treacle. But surprisingly, not in a bad way. Just sticky. Like walking through mangrove mud, which I fell into the other day and then the pressure of pulling m ...more
I have this on my shelf at home, I know I read it, but I can't remember much about it. It looks worn. I must've carried it around. I guess I finished it. When did I read this? I guess I should read it again.
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Jul 04, 2012
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Romania for 2012 Around the World in 52 Books Challenge.
Book was suggested as a quick read. I just kept reading to get the book over with.
Book was suggested as a quick read. I just kept reading to get the book over with.
Apr 26, 2011
Carmen
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