From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature2009\'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country.
Also by Herta Mller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel..
This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.
In sparse, lyrical language, Herta Mller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.
Herta Mller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain.
Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany.
All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.\'The Passportis a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu\'s dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West.
Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children.
And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature2009\'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country
