by Herta Müller · Serpent's Tail · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781852421397
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«The Passport (Masks)» is the novel by Herta Müller, published by Serpent's Tail in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Set in a German village in Romania under Ceaușescu's dictatorship, the novel follows miller Windisch after he applies for permission to emigrate to West Germany. Amid memories, superstitions and everyday oppression, Müller's spare, poetic prose depicts a community trapped between disillusionment and the promise of emigration.
English translation by Martin Chalmers; first edition in 1989. Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Eastern Europe and the work of 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.
