The hunger angel : a novel
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Boehm, Philip, translator.
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
Müller
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Book
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ix, 290 pages ; 22 cm
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English

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"A Metropolitan book."
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"Originally published as Atemschaukel in Germany by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich."
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It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony: one shovel load of coal is worth one gram of bread. In her new novel, Nobel laureate Herta Müller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity and dispassionate precision to conjure the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. She has given Leo the language to express the inexpressible, as hunger sharpens his senses into an acuity that is both hallucinatory and profound. In scene after disorienting scene, the most ordinary objects accrue tender poignancy as they acquire new purposea gramophone box serves as a suitcase, a handkerchief becomes a talisman, an enormous piece of casing pipe functions as a lovers' trysting place. The heart is reduced to a pump, the breath mechanized to the rhythm of a swinging shovel, and coal, sand, and snow have a will of their own. Hunger becomes an insatiable angel who haunts the camp day and night, but also a bare-knuckled sparring partner, delivering blows that keep Leo feeling the rawest connection to life. Müller has distilled Leo's struggle into words of breathtaking intensity that take us on a journey far beyond the Gulag and into the depths of one man's soul.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Müller, H., & Boehm, P. (2013). The hunger angel: a novel (First Picador edition.). Picador.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Müller, Herta, 1953- and Philip, Boehm. 2013. The Hunger Angel: A Novel. Picador.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Müller, Herta, 1953- and Philip, Boehm. The Hunger Angel: A Novel Picador, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Müller, Herta, and Philip Boehm. The Hunger Angel: A Novel First Picador edition., Picador, 2013.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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