by Herta Müller · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498416190
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«Hambre y seda» is the essay and story collection by Herta Müller, published by Siruela in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In these texts, Herta Müller recalls life under the dictatorship in Romania and exile, and shows how individual experience intersects with politics. She reflects on oppression, persecution and the bureaucracy of asylum, and extends her gaze to reunified Germany and xenophobia. Writing bound to memory and testimony.
Volume 64 of the El Ojo del Tiempo collection. Translated from German by Isabel García Adánez.
For adult readers interested in testimonial literature and the social consequences of dictatorships.
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
