The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
eBook - ePub

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

A Novel

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

A Novel

About this book

The Nobel Laureate's "atmospheric, lyrical" novel of surviving Communist Romania: "An essential work of post–Iron Curtain literature" ( Kirkus , starred review).
Romania, the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group.
One day Adina discovers that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hind leg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police—the fox was ever the hunter.
Crystalline images build into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world of complicity and fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. 

With prose "as poetic as it is blunt", Herta Müller creates a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of totalitarianism "in this dark collage, which glints with fear—and with beauty" ( The Atlantic).

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Information

Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780805096026
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Epigraph
  5. The way of the apple worm
  6. The man inside his own hand
  7. The forelock
  8. As good as a piece of bread
  9. A necktie
  10. Summer entrails
  11. Days of melons, days of pumpkins
  12. The cat and the dwarf
  13. Nuts
  14. A different silence
  15. Eardrum infection
  16. The smallest man carries the biggest cane
  17. The grass straw in the mouth
  18. Face without face
  19. The razor blade
  20. A fox will step into a trap
  21. You’re not saying anything
  22. My head is dark
  23. The fox on the table
  24. The hand kiss
  25. The lost shovel
  26. I can’t stand looking at the water when it’s so cold out
  27. There was a time and is no more
  28. The birthmark
  29. The wasp game
  30. The spreading city
  31. The chamber pot
  32. The fingernails grow
  33. Transparent sleep
  34. A black and white sky
  35. Frozen raspberries
  36. I don’t know you
  37. That doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter at all
  38. Also by Herta Müller
  39. About the Author
  40. About the Translator
  41. Newsletter Sign-up
  42. Contents
  43. Copyright