A review by blairmahoney
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller

5.0

A quite stunning novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Müller. She originally started working on it with the poet Oskar Pastior, based on his experiences in a forced labour camp in the Soviet Union after WWII, and then continued it on her own after his death. Müller's own mother spent five years in a similar camp. The novel is episodic and impressionistic, with elliptical glimpses at the hardships suffered by the novel's main character, a young gay Romanian of German heritage. Although similarly grim it had a very different prose style to the other Müller novel I've read, The Appointment.