THE PASSPORT.
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| Title: | THE PASSPORT. |
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| Authors: | BRANDON ROBSHAW |
| Source: | Independent (UK). 01/31/2016. |
| Abstract: | The Passport by the Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller is a short, bleak literary fable. Set in Ceausescu-era Romania, it tells the story of Windisch, a miller who seeks to emigrate with his wife and daughter to the West. To do this he must bribe a variety of officials and the village priest with sacks of flour, delivering them at night, year after year. But that's not enough: the officials also want a nocturnal visit from his attractive daughter to, er, go over her papers. The style is spare, the sentences short; it's told in the manner of an East European fairy tale, and features an owl that is a harbinger of death and an apple-tree that eats its own apples. Müller depicts a hopeless, paralysed world; yet not without a certain black humour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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| Abstract: | The Passport by the Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller is a short, bleak literary fable. Set in Ceausescu-era Romania, it tells the story of Windisch, a miller who seeks to emigrate with his wife and daughter to the West. To do this he must bribe a variety of officials and the village priest with sacks of flour, delivering them at night, year after year. But that's not enough: the officials also want a nocturnal visit from his attractive daughter to, er, go over her papers. The style is spare, the sentences short; it's told in the manner of an East European fairy tale, and features an owl that is a harbinger of death and an apple-tree that eats its own apples. Müller depicts a hopeless, paralysed world; yet not without a certain black humour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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