‘The Hunger Angel’ by Herta Müller
By DW
18 November 2023 |
8:33 am
Müller tells the story of a 17-year-old Romanian-born German forced to toil away in a Soviet labor camp to atone for Nazi crimes. Her language is so beautiful it hurts, while bringing readers to their emotional limits.
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