by Herta Müller · Bonnier Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789174290929
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«Hjärtdjur» is the novel by Herta Müller, published by Bonnier Pocket in paperback (211 pages, in Swedish).
In Ceaușescu's Romania, a small group of friends lives under the surveillance of the Securitate and the fear of interrogations; to survive the regime, they rely on language, stories, and humor. The work portrays friendship and resistance in a repressive environment with a poetic prose tone.
Originally published as «Herztier» in 1994, this Swedish edition translated by Karin Löfdahl dates from 2009; the cover features the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature badge.
Recommended for readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in communist Romania and the work of Nobel laureate Herta Müller.
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.
