by Herta Müller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483026427
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«O home é un grande faisán no mundo» is the novel by Herta Müller published by Edicións Xerais in paperback (112 pages).
The novel takes its title from a Romanian proverb comparing the clumsiness of the pheasant, unable to fly, with the misfortune of the human being. It narrates the waiting of a German family from the Banat during the Ceaucescu dictatorship and their desire to emigrate to Germany: years and days counted until obtaining the passport. In small vignettes of poetic prose it portrays life in a Romanian village.
The novel was originally published in 1986 with the title «Der Mensch ist ein grosser Fasan auf der Welt»; this 2001 edition includes the translation by Franck Meyer.
It will appeal to those seeking historical fiction and European narrative, particularly stories about German minorities in Romania.
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.
