A review by h_nn_hp
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

an account of memory, hunger, belonging and displacement wrought by 17 year old leo's deportation from a romanian town to a labour camp as part of the soviet union's deportation of up to 75,000 germans from romania for forced labour. leo's sense of displacement is evoked long before it's verbalised and müller crafts a vital testament to endurance and survival 

the comparisons to solzhenitsyn are unfair to both writers' works, which stand in their own right