{"product_id":"nadirs-9780803282544","title":"Nadirs","description":"Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, \u003ci\u003eNadirs\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been one of the most prolific and acclaimed German-language writers of the last two decades. Born in 1953 in the Banat, a German-language region of Romania, she emigrated to West Berlin in 1987 and currently lives in Berlin. Sieglinde Lug is a professor emerita of German and comparative literature at the University of Denver.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523768160530,"sku":"9780803282544","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_638a00a4-e3d3-427d-a1a0-c2d6667348b1.jpg?v=1731167711","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nadirs-9780803282544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}