NADIRS

MULLER, HERTA

juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on herta müller’s childhood in the romanian countryside. the individual tales reveal a child’s often nightmarish impressions of life in her village. seamlessly mixing reality with dream-like images, they brilliantly convey the inner, troubled life of a child and, at the same time, capture the violence and corruption of life under an oppressive state.